UN official: Traffickers may increasingly be using cargo planes for smuggling to WAfrica Traces of cocaine among the remains of a cargo plane ...
UN says 'bottom is starting to fall out' of Afghanistan's huge opium market Afghanistan's opium production fell 10 percent last year and prices ...
Production of heroin, cocaine and cannabis decreased or stabilised in 2008, but synthetic drugs like ecstasy went up, the UN's drug agency said in its annual report published Wednesday. "Global markets for cocaine, opiates and cannabis are steady or in decline, while ...
Tough controls on illegal drugs have limited the global death toll from narcotics, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said Wednesday, rejecting a "growing chorus" calling for drugs to be legalized. Statistics in the United Nations' World ...
UN reports decline in cultivation of some drugs, with marijuana most widely cultivated, used In its annual report on world drug use, the United Nations concludes that global markets for cocaine, opiates and marijuana are holding steady or in decline. Yet about ...
The use of synthetic drugs such as amphetamine, methamphetamine (meth) and ecstasy is growing in developing countries, notably in Asia and the Middle East, and in the Gulf states in particular, a top UN body warned Tuesday. While demand for such drugs ...
UN: War on drug trafficking facing huge problems a century after first efforts began The world risks losing decades of progress in drug control if it fails to counter the emergence of a criminal market of "staggering proportions," a U.N. official said ...
UN finds surprisingly high role of female perpetrators in 'modern slavery' Surprisingly, the perpetrators behind human trafficking around the world are often women, the U.N. reported Thursday. Women are the majority of traffickers in almost a third of the 155 nations the ...
UN anti-crime agency proposes special maritime police to arrest pirates off Horn of Africa Special maritime police should patrol the Horn of Africa coastline to arrest the Somali pirates who have been preying on commercial shipping, the head of the U.N. anti-crime ...
UN anti-crime agency urges governments, banks to show 'greater financial integrity' The chief of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime is urging the world's banks and governments to demonstrate "greater financial integrity" and help cut down on economic wrongdoing. Agency chief ...
AIDS remains one of the world's key killers and more must be done to alert young people of the risk of the deadly disease, senior U.N. officials said Monday. U.N. anti-drug czar Antonio Maria Costa, in marking World AIDS Day at a ...
Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the commemoration on the centennial of the convening of the International Opium Commission Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 in Shanghai, China. ...
