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Securing Evidence: The Key to Convictions for Human Trafficking
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Belgrade, (Serbia) 18 – 20 January 2022 – Human trafficking is a global and widespread crime, but despite its prevalence research shows persistent low levels of prosecutions and convictions of traffickers.…
United Nations
Rethinking incarceration: UNODC hosts Consultation on Treatment of Drug Use Disorders and Associated Mental Health Disorders in Prison Settings Vienna (Austria) and online, 11 January 2022 -Nearly twelve million people…
News
© UNODC Vienna (Austria), 5 January 2022 – In a two-week long operation against firearms trafficking in the Sahel, 850 officers from across relevant law enforcement agencies seized a total…
Europe
MEPs honoured the memory of Parliament’s late President David Maria Sassoli in a ceremony during the Plenary in Strasbourg on Monday. Opening the ceremony, Parliament’s acting President Roberta Metsola said:…
Europe
French President Macron outlined to MEPs on Wednesday the main goals and the political strategy for France’s semester steering the EU. In a debate in the Strasbourg hemicycle, President Macron…
News
More than $138 million is needed to assist rural communities affected by extended drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday, launching…
Institutions
Eleven mafia suspects were arrested in a large-scale international operation end of 2021 by the European Prosecutor's Office against suspects in tax evasion of luxury cars. Searches of 46 homes…
Europe
A new bill being debated by lawmakers in the United Kingdom increases the risk of discrimination and “serious human rights violations” and breaches the country's obligations under international law, five…
Europe
Authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in neighbouring Serbia, must condemn and refrain from any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on…
Christianity
On the occasion of the upcoming 134th session of the UN Human Rights Committee (28 February – 25 March 2022), the African Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses (AAJW) and the European Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses…
