Tag: UNODC

Despite producers struggling to get their product to market during Covid 19, Global production of cocaine jumped dramatically over the past two years following an initial slowdown caused by the pandemic, according to a new report released on March 16 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

The number of victims of trafficking in persons are less identified now for the first time in the last 20 years even...

A huge influx of money at the top level of professional sport, rapid growth of legal and illegal sports betting and marked...

About 45,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by intimate partners or other family members in 2021, which...

The world saw an increase of 26 per cent of the use of drugs as the use of legalized cannabis in some...

Prisoners across the world increased by more than 25 per cent and one in every three prisoners are held without trial, according to a...

Capitalising on loss of livelihoods and increasing amount of time both adults and children were spending on the Internet during Covid 19 pandemic, the...

Around 275 million people used drugs in 2020 in an unprecedented upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is up by 22 per cent...

Girls as young as 12 years of age are forced or tricked into marrying men who exploit them for sex and domestic work, which...

In a major unison to fight the threats posed by crime to sport, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the...