President Al-Sisi, UNODC official confer on combating organised crime, terrorism
Ghada Wali reviews activities on agenda of UNODC
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Corruption costs global economy $3trn annually: UNODC Director
Egypt will host 9th UN conference on fighting corruption in Sharm El-Sheikh in December 2021
Egypt, UNODC sign agreement to develop social welfare institutions
Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine El-Kabbaj signed, on Wednesday, a cooperation protocol with Cristina Albertine, Regional Director of the United Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for The Middle East And North Africa. The protocol, which comes as a cooperation partnership between the two sides, will see the ministry and UNODC work together to …
EU, UNODC launch 3-year project to dismantle migrant smuggling, human trafficking networks
Project targets 4 North African countries including Egypt
Trafficking cases as form of sexual exploitation, dropped to zero in Egypt: UNODC
Egypt witnessed remarkable decline in cases of trafficked persons, says report
People smugglers profiting from plight of refugees
Europe’s refugee drama is a gold mine for unscrupulous people smugglers. Police and the army are stepping up efforts to clamp down on the illegal business of human trafficking. Numbers can never tell the whole story. But they can give a good impression of the dimensions. Here’s one such number: in July alone, 107,500 migrants crossed …
United Nations World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Conflict, terrorism, economic turmoil, natural calamities, disease: we are living in an era of unprecedented crises and troubles, as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned. Record numbers of people are fleeing war and persecution, and the international community is grappling with acute migration challenges in the Mediterranean, the Balkans, in the Andaman Sea, …
UN agency warns that Africa is emerging market for illicit substances trafficking
The UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime annual report
Egypt calls for international cooperation to address human trafficking
The United Nations says nearly one third of known human trafficking victims between 2007 and 2010 were children