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Secretary-General Ban praises Global Sport Fund initiative

Secretary-General Ban at the GSF offices in Doha

3 December 2008 - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pledged his support for the Global Sport Fund (GSF) initiative. Mr Ban praised the partnership between UNODC and the Qatar Olympic Committee in remarks to media representatives after his recent visit to the UNODC office and the QOC.[Read More]

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Abolishing slavery, eradicating human trafficking

Hand holding the "key to freedom"

2 December 2008 - Today is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, commemorating the abolition of the slave trade by Britain some 200 years ago. At an International People's Lecture organized last week by the NGO Stop The Traffik, lawyer Cherie Booth QC said freedom from slavery was the very first human right recognized by international law.[Read More]

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Watch Antonio Maria Costa on BBC's Hardtalk

2 December 2008- The Executive Director of UNODC, Antonio Maria Costa will appear today on BBC's Hardtalk. The interviewer is Zeinab Badawi.

In the interview he discussed Afghanistan, drug trafficking through West Africa, and cannabis.

[Watch the Full Interview] [Read More]

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Paris Pact

A partnership of more than 50 countries and international organizations aimed at combating Afghan opiates trafficking, consumption and related problems in the affected priority countries. [Read More]

StAR Initiative

By signaling to corrupt leaders that there will be no safe haven for stolen assets, StAR would constitute a formidable deterrent to corruption in developing countries. StAR would also serve to bring in the other side of the corruption equation, as stolen as [Read More]

UN.Gift

The Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) aims to mobilize state and non-state actors to eradicate human trafficking by (i) reducing both the vulnerability of potential victims a [Read More]