After three years of ideological wrangling, the United Nations (UN) committee tasked with creating a new global cyber crime pact finally approved a draft framework on August 9 . The treaty represents ...

While marking the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, new UN and rights-groups findings show modern slavery ...

Israel's accelerating settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian Territories amounts to a war crime, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said. Türk's office said it documented ...

By confirming the first group of experts, the CND signalled a decisive move to implementation. The Panel will begin meeting in 2026 and will develop clear, actionable recommendations to enhance the ...

A group of Democratic senators is sounding the alarm about U.S. participation in a forthcoming United Nations cybercrime treaty vote, fearing that America’s involvement could lend credibility to ...

I thank the Executive Director of the UNODC, as well as the Governments of Japan and the United Arab Emirates, respectively, for co-organizing today’s event. The calamitous suffering in the Middle ...

Already mired in an insecurity crisis that has displaced hundreds of thousands, Haiti now faces expanding gang-controlled trafficking corridors and growing multinational collaboration among regional ...

One woman or girl is killed by a partner or family member almost every 10 minutes, an average of 137 every day, according to ...

What happens in Myanmar 'will shape drug markets in the region and far beyond, and requires urgent action,' says UNODC ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war ...

In 1980, the Boston Globe put a place-holding headline on an editorial about a speech by President Jimmy Carter. “Mush from the wimp,” the headline read — and ...