Topic: United Nations
International Statement of Support to United Nations Conventions on Narcotics
January 23, 2012 · By Gráinne Kenny
International groups who describe themselves as world experts are working hard to promote full legalisation of drugs. They propose different approaches through Medical Marijuana (NORML US), Cannabis legalisation/decriminalisation, injecting rooms and harm reduction with no independent evaluation of results.
Read More...Drug Legalisation: An Evaluation of the Impacts on Global Society
December 21, 2011 ·
The flawed proposition of drug legalisation Various well funded pressure groups have mounted campaigns to overturn the United Nations Conventions on drugs. These groups claim that society should accept the fact of drugs as a problem that will remain and, therefore, should be managed in a way that would enable millions of people to take […]
Read More...The Millennium Development Goals to Reduce Poverty
September 29, 2010 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
In the year 2000, the United Nations set eight goals to reduce by half the number of people living in dire poverty worldwide. The achievements and failures in the past ten years were reviewed a few weeks ago by world leaders meeting in The UN headquarters in New York.
Read More...UN Report Says Sex Trafficking a Big Concern
February 16, 2009 ·
UNITED NATIONS – A NEW report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said on Monday that sexual exploitation and forced labour are the most common forms of human trafficking around the globe.
Read More...Child Trafficking on the Rise
September 4, 2003 ·
The United Nations Children Fund estimates that approximately $1.2 million children are trafficked year for $10 (USD) billion. In a recently published report “End Child Exploitation: Stop the Traffic” UNICEF noted that there had been a 20% increase in child prostitutes in Thailand in the last three years and 15% of the girls trafficked from […]
Read More...UN ENVOY REPORTS NO EVIDENCE OF ‘CHILD SOLDIERING’ IN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA
April 14, 2002 ·
A top United Nations expert on the impact of armed conflict on children said that during a recent visit to Eritrea and Ethiopia he had seen no systematic use of child soldiers and found no evidence of child abuse in refugee camps. Olara Otunnu, Secretary-General’s Kofi Annan’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, said […]
Read More...SEX TRAFFICKING OCCURS VIA INFORMAL NETWORKS, ILO, UNDP SAY
April 14, 2002 ·
Sex trafficking of children in Thailand is largely an industry run by small, informal networks, according to a new report from the ILO in co-ordination with the UN Development Program. It is mainly informal networks that are responsible for trafficking girls out of their villages, and sometimes girls are driven by boredom with village life […]
Read More...The International Dealers in Death
July 9, 2001 ·
The world is awash with guns – at least 550 million of them. An endless cheap supply of small arms has spawned an epidemic of killing. In a three-part series, Guardian writers hunt down the dealers, talk to the victims and ask what can be done to stop the trade. Today: The gunrunner
Read More...UN Human Trafficking protocol endorsed
January 1, 2001 ·
by Sutthida Malikaew After long negotiations the United up with trafficking in persons, which was endorsed by UN member states in December 2000. However, there is still a lot of hard work left to do for NGOS. Negotiations were concluded on the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, […]
Read More...UN Urges Action on Millions of Asian Trafficking Victims
March 29, 2000 ·
BANGKOK – Nine million people have been enslaved in the global sex trade or forced to work in appalling conditions by powerful crime syndicates active in human trafficking, according to a new United Nations report.
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