In order to stand out in a crowded field, certain drug trafficking gangs have sought to stamp an independent brand on their packages, from US President
AFP
Updated at 12:20 p.m. ET on 2021-02-05
Methamphetamine production has quadrupled in Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle region in recent years, the head of the U.N.’s counter-narcotics office in Bangkok told BenarNews on Thursday, saying illegal manufacturers of synthetic drugs have changed ingredients used to start the process.
In the past, enforcement agencies tracked pseudoephedrine and ephedrine, two chemicals used to produce methamphetamine, said Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Now, three precursors – phenyl 2-propanone, caffeine and propionyl chloride – are being used, according to a Thai press release.
IOM
- New emerging technologies and COVID-19 have triggered opportunistic, predatory behaviour from organized criminal networks, which often utilize fraudulent travel documents and/or stolen or lost passports to facilitate migrant smuggling, trafficking in persons, and irregular migration.
The global border closures marked a drop in the number of irregular journeys, resulting in a significant loss of profit for organized criminal networks. Analysts observed that as travel and movement restrictions have been eased in some parts of the world, organized criminal networks started moving from a reactive position – taking advantage of migrants’ vulnerabilities – towards a more proactive role, by actively promoting their illegal services, and putting the lives of migrants at higher risks by using more perilous routes.
AFP
Updated at 12:20 p.m. ET on 2021-02-05
Methamphetamine production has quadrupled in Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle region in recent years, the head of the U.N.’s counter-narcotics office in Bangkok told BenarNews on Thursday, saying illegal manufacturers of synthetic drugs have changed ingredients used to start the process.
In the past, enforcement agencies tracked pseudoephedrine and ephedrine, two chemicals used to produce methamphetamine, said Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Now, three pre-cursors – phenyl 2-propanone, caffeine and propionyl chloride – are being used, according to a Thai press release.
Atty. Mmonbeydo Joah presents copies of the Domestic Violence Act to Judge Eva Mappy Morgan
The Organization for Women and Children (ORWOCH), a local non-governmental organization, has presented seventy-five copies of the Domestic Violence Act to the National Trial Judges Association of Liberia (NATJL).
Presenting the Act on February 1, 2021, Mmonbeydo N. Joah, Executive Director of ORWOCH, said the Act was printed with support from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODOC) for onward distribution to Magisterial Courts, prosecutors, trial judges and SGBV coordinators across the country.
She revealed plans to make similar donation to the Prosecutors Association of Liberia in the coming weeks.