Issue 27 | November 18, 2011
A quick and easy way to update yourself on the latest UNODC and international drugs and crime news

UNODC News

• United Nations Public Service Awards 2012: call for nominations in anti-corruption category
• Head of UNODC pays tribute to late Minister of the Interior of Mexico Blake Mora and Vice-Minister Zamora Castro
• Sustained efforts and cooperation in drug control essential to prevent suffering, says INCB
• Post-conflict Central Africa threatened by organized crime
• UNODC and Paraguay launch $10 million programme to combat drugs and crime
• Khuseleka: empowering victims of crime in South Africa

Highlights

Post-conflict Central Africa threatened by organized crime

10 November 2011 - Conflict in Central Africa appears to have declined markedly in recent years. According to the UNODC report Organized Crime and Instability in Central Africa: A Threat Assessment, the current instability and violence, mostly affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo, increasingly seem to be the result of criminal acts occurring in a context of persistent lawlessness and weak State institutions rather than the product of war. This situation makes it difficult to provide the criminal justice response that crimes such as murder, rape and trafficking in children require. [Read More]

Read our latest publications

• 31 October 2011 - Organized Crime and Instability in Central Africa - A Threat Assessment

Other International Drugs and Crime News

• European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction: 15 November 2011 - EU drugs agency releases new analysis of Europe’s changing opioid problem
• European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction: 15 November 2011 - Policies and responses must be fit to face the challenges of the next decade, says drugs agency chief
• European Commission: 15 November 2011 - Drugs report: Commissioner Malmström calls for vigilance on synthetic drugs and asks for more anti-trafficking efforts
• United Nations: 10 November 2011 - Ban deploys UN team to assess Gulf of Guinea piracy threat
• United Nations: 10 November 2011 - More coordination key to response to chemical or biological terror threat – UN
• International Organization of Migration: 4 November 2011 - IOM, UN Work with Indonesia to Protect and Empower Victims of Human Trafficking

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