The Protocol supplemented the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and defined trafficking in persons. It addresses contemporary exploitation rather than the historic Atlantic trade,...
A high-level event in Vienna examined digital drug markets and cooperation between the SCO and UN agencies. It joined the organisation's security agenda to emerging online technologies.
Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada issued a ban on poppy cultivation and narcotics production and trade. The decree sharply curtailed a major rural livelihood and global illicit-drug supply...
UNODC’s 2023 survey found that opium poppy cultivation had fallen 95 percent from 2022, following the Taliban’s April 2022 ban. The rapid change reduced a major source of rural earnings and...
