Six rights groups urged the United Nations anti-drugs agency on Wednesday to stop funding counter-narcotics police operations in Iran until Tehran ends the death penalty for such offences.
One in three victims of human trafficking worldwide is a child, many of them subject to sexual exploitation or forced labour, a UN report said Monday.
Afghanistan’s opium crop will hit a new high this year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, presenting the new
Almost half a million people across the world lost their lives in 2012 as a result of intentional homicide, with the highest murder rates logged in the Americas and Africa, and the lowest in Europe, Asia and Oceania, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said.
Exercises in countering nuclear terrorism started here in the Russian capital Thursday that involved 58 countries as well as international observers, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
The United Nations has said that drug abuse worldwide kills about 200,000 people a year.
The United Nations has said that drug abuse worldwide kills about 200,000 people a year.
Afghans had to pay whopping USD 2.5 billion, a quarter of Afghanistan`s annual GDP, in bribes last year, making corruption their biggest worry than insurgency, a UN report has said.
