Share of Children Among Human Trafficking Victims Triples Over Past 15 Years - UN Tue 02nd February 2021 | 06:10 PM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 02nd February, 2021) The share of children among the victims of human trafficking has tripled over the past 15 years, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a fresh report on Tuesday.
According to the UNODC, children now make up 30 percent of all human trafficking victims, up from 10 percent more than a decade ago.
Girls are predominantly trafficked for sexual exploitation and boys for forced labor, the UN agency said.
Adult women make up roughly half of all human trafficking victims, the agency said, noting that the share of adult men among victims has nearly doubled in the same time period.
The United States of America, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and UNODC Human Trafficking Seminar
WASHINGTON, THE HAGUE - On February 1, 2021, the United States of America and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with participants from the Netherlands and Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten participated in a virtual seminar on strategies to better combat human trafficking led by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The seminar followed a prior training conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
UNODC focused on tools for criminal justice practitioners, as well as challenges, and achievements in international cooperation on human trafficking cases. In particular, UNODC featured the TRACK4TIP initiative to enhance the regional criminal justice response to human trafficking among migration flows involving Venezuelans by working at regional and local levels to identify, prevent, and prosecute human trafficking cases. The participants represented criminal justice practitioner
Inside Colombia s FOUR BILLION DOLLAR jungle cocaine labs where country s largest guerrilla group produced and ship tons of Class A drug to El Chapo s Sinaloa cartel
Colombia s Attorney General s Office announced Saturday the discovery of two secret labs where the National Liberation Army produced cocaine
Military soldiers and intelligence officers seized 2,800 kilos of cocaine from one of the labs located in the jungle in the Pacific coast department of Nariño
The labs had the capacity to produce up to $4 billion a year in cocaine
The cocaine was shipped from Nariño to Central America where drug traffickers connected with the Sinaloa Cartel arranged its shipment into Mexico
Another Peruvian leader has been accused of corruption. Alberto Fujimori, known to control with an “iron fist,” faces a 25-year sentence for charges of human rights abuse and ordering death squad killings during the Peruvian Civil War. Fujimori’s daughter, Keiko Fujimori, is running in the 2021 presidential election, despite her own history of imprisonment and financial scandals. Fujimori has promised to pardon her father if elected.
The Peruvian Civil War began in 1980, when the Communist Party of Peru, also known as the Shining Path, refused to take part in the country’s newly resumed elections. Instead, the group initiated a guerilla war against the government. This which would rage for 20 years, only coming to a declared end in 2000, after Albert Fujimori resigned. However, the Shining Path’s mission to obliterate Peru’s political systems left a dent in the country’s political parties – and fuel was added to the fire when multiple former presidents became incrimi
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February 1, 2021
Oliver Stolpe, country representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), says he is confident Mohammed Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), will excel in his new position.
According to a release signed by Jonah Achema of the public affairs unit of NDLEA, Stolpes said the appointment of Marwa is a positive sign and has renewed global confidence in Nigeria’s drug control capability.
“We have every confidence in your ability to deliver,” Stolpe said during a courtesy visit to the NDLEA headquarters in Abuja on Monday.
He said the UNODC is in support of the National Drug Control Master Plan and other drug control documents being developed by NDLEA in its bid to wipe out illicit drugs in the country.