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Global Drugs Production At 3,708 Tonnes, 34% Jump From 2022: UN
Cocaine production, seizures and use all hit record highs in 2023, the UN drug agency said on Thursday, with the illicit drug's market the world's fastest-growing.
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Mali Seizes $6 Million Of Cannabis On New Drug Route
Malian customs officials have made one of the country's biggest ever drug seizures, impounding 2.1 tonnes of cannabis detected along a new smuggling route that stretches down the west African coast.
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Human Trafficking a Serious Issue: Rajnath Singh
Human trafficking is a border-less organised crime in which more than 1.5 lakh people become victims every year, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today.
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Record Afghan Opium Output Sparks Rise in Cheaper Heroin Supply: UN
Opium cultivation and production in Afghanistan have reached record levels, triggering "a large increase" in cheaper heroin supply in the US, the United Nations said today.
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437,000 murdered worldwide in 2012: UN agency
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.
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Crime one of the world's 'Top 20 Economies': UN
Crime generates an estimated $2.1 trillion in global annual proceeds - or 3.6 percent of the world's gross domestic product - and the problem may be growing, a senior United Nations official said on Monday. "It makes the criminal business one of the largest economies in the world, one of the top 20 economies," said Yury Fedotov, head of the U.N. Of...
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India biggest market of heroin in South Asia: report
A major share of heroin in South Asian market goes to India's local criminal groups, a UN annual drug report said today."In 2009, the total value of the South Asian heroin estimated at $1.9 billion mostly went to Indian local criminal groups", the World Drug Report 2011 produced by UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said."With a value of USD 1.4 ...
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Global Drugs Production At 3,708 Tonnes, 34% Jump From 2022: UN
Cocaine production, seizures and use all hit record highs in 2023, the UN drug agency said on Thursday, with the illicit drug's market the world's fastest-growing.
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Mali Seizes $6 Million Of Cannabis On New Drug Route
Malian customs officials have made one of the country's biggest ever drug seizures, impounding 2.1 tonnes of cannabis detected along a new smuggling route that stretches down the west African coast.
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Human Trafficking a Serious Issue: Rajnath Singh
Human trafficking is a border-less organised crime in which more than 1.5 lakh people become victims every year, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today.
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Record Afghan Opium Output Sparks Rise in Cheaper Heroin Supply: UN
Opium cultivation and production in Afghanistan have reached record levels, triggering "a large increase" in cheaper heroin supply in the US, the United Nations said today.
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437,000 murdered worldwide in 2012: UN agency
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.
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Crime one of the world's 'Top 20 Economies': UN
Crime generates an estimated $2.1 trillion in global annual proceeds - or 3.6 percent of the world's gross domestic product - and the problem may be growing, a senior United Nations official said on Monday. "It makes the criminal business one of the largest economies in the world, one of the top 20 economies," said Yury Fedotov, head of the U.N. Of...
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India biggest market of heroin in South Asia: report
A major share of heroin in South Asian market goes to India's local criminal groups, a UN annual drug report said today."In 2009, the total value of the South Asian heroin estimated at $1.9 billion mostly went to Indian local criminal groups", the World Drug Report 2011 produced by UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said."With a value of USD 1.4 ...
