United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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Sep 26, 2026
Ezat ElferiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The digital gap between the global north and the global south has been widening.
Ezat ElferiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So how does UNODC plan on using this crime congress to ensure that justice and law enforcement systems in developing countries are not left behind, especially in this age of artificial intelligence?
Monica JumaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, that is why, first of all, the platform is so important, because it's a global convergence, and that is the value of the UN, that we have the capacity as UNODC to bring everyone on the tables.
Monica JumaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In fact, technology is not leaving anyone behind.
Monica JumaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It is precisely where we have vulnerabilities of technology that we need to focus attention more, because even in countries that we consider vulnerable, very advanced in terms of technology, they are as vulnerable as the weakest ones.
Monica JumaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And that, you can be given the advantage of speed by technology, you can be given the advantage of analysis, if you're talking like forensic analysis and things like that.
Monica JumaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But that ability to translate that cooperation is not enabled fully on the member state side, because it has to be enabled by institutional frameworks, by policies, the right policies, the right cooperation mechanisms, the right relationships and things like that.
Monica JumaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And that is why at UNODC we are increasingly creating platforms for interface between the various sectors within government, but also those sectors across borders.
Justin GoslingGUEST
There's responses from...
Justin GoslingGUEST
Such as the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and Interpol and the World Customs Organization who are paying much more attention.
Justin GoslingGUEST
There's great work by task forces around the world.
Justin GoslingGUEST
And one of the examples specifically is.
Edgar MillsHOST
There's an underground market for everything, and those numbers are hard to come by.
Edgar MillsHOST
But human trafficking that we know about somewhere in the tens of thousands annually, around sixteen thousand is one UNODC data.
Edgar MillsHOST
I don't-- United Nations Office of...
Edgar MillsHOST
I don't know.
Bernard AsamoahGUEST
But, um, before addressing the issue, I want to establish a caveat here.
Bernard AsamoahGUEST
I'm not speaking for UNODC, but using experience from UNODC, I will be, uh, addressing these issues holistically.
Bernard AsamoahGUEST
I currently, um, hold the office of Executive Director for the Hub Against Transnational Organized Crime, HATO Ghana, so that is what, uh, capacity that I'm speaking from.
Bernard AsamoahGUEST
Now, the challenges that we are facing as far as this drug bust is concerned, first and foremost, we can't, uh, run away from the fact that, uh, the organized criminals are advanced in intelligence more than probably our security agencies.
Bernard AsamoahGUEST
And then also, one of the major issue that cut across whenever we are talking of drug trafficking is compromised officials that finds its way in the areas of corruption and also, um, challenges with our law enforcement officials as far as our service conditions and logistical issues are concerned.
Bernard AsamoahGUEST
And at the end of the day, what is the policy direction of the government as far as the fight against drug is concerned? That is the strategic direction of, of, of, of, uh, this, uh, uh, issue.
Bernard AsamoahGUEST
So, um, from the international perspective, the UNODC has actually reported in the World Drug Report in twenty twenty-five that, um, as we all know, about twen- thirty to thirty-three percent of drug that comes from the, uh, um, Southern American countries pass through Western Africa before going to, uh, Western Europe.
Bernard AsamoahGUEST
So when we come to West Africa, we look at Ghana, uh, Sierra Leone, Liberia, uh, Gambia as most of the, uh, uh, transit house in terms of trafficking of this drug.
Jude AzardGUEST
That includes corruption, political protection, and coordinated action against the state.
Jude AzardGUEST
And that is documented by the Office on Drugs and Crime of the United Nations.
Jude AzardGUEST
And also independent analysts That same report shows that Haiti's security crisis is sustained by a mix of gang violence and state complicity.
Jude AzardGUEST
So the gang control large part of Port-au-Prince and other departments with access to military grade weapons and the ability to conduct coordinated operation against I'd say all institutions in the country.
Ezzat El-FerriCORRESPONDENT
Well, you mentioned this digital age that we're in, and we can see that the digital gap between the global north and the global south has been widening.
Ezzat El-FerriCORRESPONDENT
So how does UNODC plan on using this crime congress to ensure that justice and law enforcement systems in developing countries are not left behind, especially in this age of artificial intelligence?
Monica JumaGUEST
Well we are actually, that is why first of all the platform is so important because it's a global convergence and that is the value of the UN that we have the capacity as UNODC to bring everyone on the table.
Monica JumaGUEST
So we are expecting full membership of the United Nations in Abu Dhabi so that we can have that representation from everywhere in the world.
Monica JumaGUEST
Secondly, in fact, technology is not leaving anyone behind.
Monica JumaGUEST
You can be given the advantage of analysis if you are talking like forensic analysis and things like that.
Monica JumaGUEST
But that ability to translate that cooperation is not enabled fully on the member state side because it is also, it has to be enabled by institutional frameworks, by policies, the right policies, the right cooperation mechanisms, the right relationships and things like that.
Monica JumaGUEST
And that is why at UNODC, we are increasingly creating platforms for interface between the various sectors within government, but also those sectors across borders.
Matt WellsHOST
These shortages have proved deadly, especially in the north, it said.
Matt WellsHOST
Finally, the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan has spiked by 19% so far this year, after a near total halt in production last year, linked to a Taliban prohibition, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, or UNODC.
Matt WellsHOST
A new report from the UN agency estimates that poppy growing for the street drug heroin now covers just 13,000 hectares across Afghanistan, an area almost 20 times smaller than just two years ago.
Matt WellsHOST
To keep production down, UNODC Executive Director Garda Wali said that it was urgent to find profitable alternative crops and livelihoods for Afghanistan's struggling farmers.
Matt WellsHOST
We have the opportunity and responsibility to support Afghan farmers to develop sustainable sources of income free from illicit markets, she insisted.
Matt WellsHOST
The UNODC report also identifies a shift in opium poppy cultivation patterns.
Matt WellsHOST
While southwest Afghanistan's been the country's opium hub traditionally, 59% of cultivation this year took place in the northeast.
Matt WellsHOST
Matt Wells, UN News.
Daniel JohnsonHOST
According to UN data, at least 51,100 women and girls died in this way globally in 2023.
Daniel JohnsonHOST
A new report from UN Women and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime points out that violence against women and girls remains largely unreported owing to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.
Daniel JohnsonHOST
Mexican activist Norma Andrade visited UN Geneva recently to raise awareness about femicide after the murder of her daughter Lilia Alejandra in the town of Ciudad Juarez on the border with the United States in 2001.
Daniel JohnsonHOST
Norma has survived two attempts on her life in the 23 years since her daughter's body was discovered as she continues to fight for justice.
Mona CharenHOST
I mean, how does the American market for illegal drugs compare with other countries? Are we are we in the middle? Are we at the top? Where do we rank in terms of how much how much we have a love of illegal drugs?
Adam IsacsonGUEST
For cocaine, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime used to estimate this more.
Adam IsacsonGUEST
And back around 2010, we were about 35 to 40 percent of world demand.
Adam IsacsonGUEST
And we're
Edwin VieiraHOST
So just what is the Bukele model? Crime-related insecurity is a looming specter over much of Latin America.
Edwin VieiraHOST
A 2023 study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found Americans have the highest regional homicide rate in the world, as well as high rates of homicidal violence related to organized crime.
Edwin VieiraHOST
This has led to public anxiety and demands for drastic solutions.
Edwin VieiraHOST
The entire region has been undergoing a decades-long deterioration in public security indicators, said Diego Sanjuro, a leading member of the Latin American and Caribbean Group for Security and Democracy and former coordinator of Comprehensive and Preventative Security Strategies under the previous Uruguayan government of center-right leader Luis La Celpu.
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