Issue 38 | July 31 , 2012
A quick and easy way to update yourself on the latest UNODC and international drugs and crime news

UNODC News

• Criminals rake in $250 billion per year in counterfeit goods that pose health and safety risks to unsuspecting public
• Human trafficking: organized crime and the multibillion dollar sale of people
• Turning the tide: not without prisons!
• 2011 Colombia coca crop survey shows stable overall situation
• ICCWC launches wildlife and forest crime toolkit

Highlights

New UNODC campaign highlights transnational organized crime as a US$870 billion a year business

UNODC has launched a new global awareness-raising campaign emphasizing the size and cost of transnational organized crime. Profiling this multibillion-dollar-a-year threat to peace, human security and prosperity, the campaign illustrates the key financial and social costs of this international problem through a new public service announcement video and dedicated fact sheets for journalists. [Read More]

Read our latest publications

• July 26, 2012 - Colombia: Coca cultivation survey 2011 (pdf)
• July 11, 2012 - Corruption Prevention to Foster Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development - VOLUME II (pdf)

Other International Drugs and Crime News

• UNGIFT: 31 July 2012 - GIFT boxes raise awareness during Olympic Games about human trafficking
• UN News Centre: 25 July 2012 - Overall picture of coca cultivation in Colombia remains stable – UN agency
• INTERPOL: 25 July 2012 -Thousands arrested in INTERPOL operation targeting illegal trade in birds
• INTERPOL: 17 July 2012 - International operation led by INTERPOL reveals scale of illicit goods trafficking
• UN News Centre: 16 July 2012 - New UN campaign highlights financial and social costs of transnational organized crime
• WHO: 21 July 2012 - Four ways to reduce hepatitis infections in people who inject drugs
• EMCDDA: 17 July 2012 - EMCDDA 2012 Statistical bulletin provides latest data on Europe’s drugs problem
  
• Council of Europe: 06 July 2012 - State violence against migrants must be investigated and stamped out, say PACE committee heads

Resources

• New UNODC Campaign - Transnational Organized Crime: Let's put them out of business
• UNODC in Pictures
  
• UNODC in the News
  
• UNODC on Twitter
• UNODC on Facebook
  

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