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The effects of corruption are “detrimental to all of society”, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Wednesday during the first day of a special session convened to galvanize political will to fight the scourge.
“We cannot pretend that there were no issues before the COVID-19 pandemic”, said Volkan Bozkir. “Transnational financial crime and corruption are unfortunately commonplace in our interconnected, interdependent world”.
He said that it affects decision-making processes and “remains one of the most critical challenges for States, institutions, and communities”.
The #UNGASS2021 Political Declaration entitled “Our common commitment to effectively addressing challenges and implementing measures to prevent and combat corruption and strengthen international cooperation” has been adopted #UnitedAgainstCorruptionpic.twitter.com/Q5MlArUG6I
Pandemic, Job losses & Stress: DRI teams making record seizures of narcotics at seaports, airports
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The very next day the DRI teams at the Mumbai international airport found 2.3 kg of cocaine which two foreign nationals had concealed in their bodies.
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The DRI teams, the official said, have stepped up surveillance and are keeping a vigil at all the sensitive points of entry.
On April 21, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials at Tuticorin port in Tamil Nadu intercepted a container. The wooden logs it carried had nine bags with 303 kg of cocaine worth Rs 2100 crore.
The very next day the DRI teams at the Mumbai international airport found 2.3 kg of cocaine which two foreign nationals had concealed in their bodies.
How the #UNODC is Fighting Human Trafficking during the pandemic
How the #UNODC is Fighting Human Trafficking during the pandemic
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COLOMBO (News 1st); A recent regional expert group meeting for Asia-Pacific region hosted out of Vienna by the UN Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) represented a major milestone in forging fruitful Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) that improve the lives of vulnerable populations worldwide.
The event convened dozens on experts under the banner of “
Public Private Partnerships to Counter and Prevent Trafficking in Persons” and marked the path forward for further collaboration in combating human trafficking.
The event saw State representatives from Australia, Cambodia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. The event also garnered the interest of the private sector; professionals from companies such as British Petroleum, Facebook, HSBC, Microsoft, Far Eastern Internat
The world's largest crime prevention and criminal justice gathering wrapped up on Friday, rejecting "the divisions and inequalities" exposed by COVID-19,.
Law enforcement sources, crime analysts and others have identified free trade zones as arguably the biggest threat to the safety of vaccine supplies in Africa.
Mombasa is at the top of the list of ports already a major conduit for falsified and substandard medicines.
Lack of a continental strategy to stop the spread of fake Covid vaccines means countries are acting in isolation.
Black-green tears of moss streak the facades of once-white buildings. The city is a maze of narrow streets, some cobbled with sea-stones, calcified by the centuries that have passed since they were laid.
The air, always humid, is aromatic with sweet spices and fish, salt-washed from the nearby sea; the cacophony of the many markets and the muezzins call to prayer add to an atmosphere already heavy on the senses.