United Nations Crime Research Body Brings Together Experts, Country Representatives

 

To Discuss Security Planning for Major Global Events

 

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION

ON ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION

AFRICAN LEADERS URGED TO TACKLE CRIME, INSECURITY,

CORRUPTION TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT

Action Programme to Be Endorsed at Abuja Meeting

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UNITED NATIONS FIREARMS PROTOCOL ENTERS INTO FORCE

 

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VIENNA, 6 July (UN Information Service) -- On 3 July, 90 days after the date of deposit of its fortieth instrument of ratification, the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (the Firearms Protocol), entered into force.

NO COUNTRY -- RICH OR POOR -- IMMUNE TO CORRUPTION, PUBLIC GOOD ALWAYS SUFFERS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BRASILIA FORUM

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the fourth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, delivered by Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in Brasilia, 7 June:

UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON CRIME PREVENTION

 

AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE CONCLUDES 14TH SESSION

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UNITED NATIONS EXPERT GROUP MEETING TO DISCUSS GOOD PRACTICES

IN COMBATING, ELIMINATING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

 

SECURITY, DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS ALL ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE ‘IN LARGER

FREEDOM’, CRIME CONGRESS HIGH-LEVEL MEETING TOLD

Government Efforts to Combat Organized Crime,

Corruption, Terrorism Indispensable in New Collective Security System

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CRIME CONGRESS HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT OPENS WITH CHALLENGE TO MEET GROWING

THREATS OF TERRORISM, MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS, CYBERCRIME

Speakers Also Focus on Need for Action

To Counter Organized Crime, Corruption, Poverty

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‘AROUND-THE-CLOCK’ CAPABILITY NEEDED TO SUCCESSFULLY FIGHT

 

CYBERCRIME, WORKSHOP TOLD

Speakers Stress Importance of International Cooperation;

UNODC Urged to Provide Technical Assistance to Member States

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