What to do about organized crime? |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
The shaping of policy at UNODC (2002-2010) | |||
2. Crime has also diversified:
3. Crime has thus become a security threat.
4. Why has organized crime reached such magnitude?
5. The problem will worsen because of the economic crisis?
6. The response to the growing crime has been robust, but not effective.
|
|||
Last Updated on Thursday, 20 January 2011 11:15 |
Popular
UNODC News
Aceh: Paradise Rediscovered |
Posted: 1 February 2013 Can you think of a region so poor that income is less than one dollar a day per person: that has gone through a war against the central government for 30 years (1975-2005); that in 2004 was submerged by a tidal wave (the tsunami) that killed 170,000 people out of a total population of 3 million (in other words 1 person out of every 20); that was later submerged by an avalanche of assistance personnel that pushed local prices beyond what locals could afford? Well, let me help you. The Aceh peninsula of Northern Indonesia, along the strategic Malacca Straits, is where I went on mission yesterday, with a delicate task: to determine the extent of drug production (cannabis cultivation); trafficking (hashish and methamphetamine); the associated crime and violence; the health impact (including the spread of HIV because of drug-injection); and, above what can be done to put an end to all this through development. |
Read more... |
UNODC Speeches
Disrupt criminal markets, not just the mafias High-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on transnational organized crime |
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
In the past quarter century, organized crime has gone global. It has reached macro-economic and armed dimensions to become a threat to the stability of nations. The report on The Globalization of Crime issued today by my office (the UN Office on Drugs and Crime) provides the first comprehensive assessment of global crime markets: drugs, arms, modern slaves, illicit resources, counterfeits, as well as maritime piracy and cyber-crime.
The threat is not just economic. The threat is strategic, as criminals today can influence elections, politicians and the military – in one word, they buy power.
Some governments are unable to resist, as they lack the resourcess. Some others would be able to contain the problem, but show a benign neglect -- and I have in mind some rich nations. |
Read more... |