Topic: Maria Costa
Mooresville is a town in Iredell County, North Carolina, 25 miles north of Charlotte, the state capital, and 18 miles from the county seat, Statesville. This location and its closeness to three highways and Charlotte International Airport caused Mooresville's population to ...
UN highlights plight of poor drug addicts, warns of 'health disaster' in Third World While celebrities earn notoriety from publicly going into rehab, millions of impoverished drug addicts are being ostracized, do not have access to doctors and are often imprisoned, a ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - International criminal gangs and traffickers are exploiting large geographic blind spots where radar, satellite or other surveillance is minimal or nonexistent, the U.N. crime and drugs czar said on Wednesday.Antonio Maria Costa, head of the Vienna-based U ...
UN drug czar says Latin American cocaine is being traded for arms in West Africa Cocaine shipped to West Africa by Latin American drug cartels is now being traded for arms, the U.N.'s drug czar said Monday an exchange of ...
Conference delegates meeting in the Qatari capital on Friday backed a tightening of the United Nations anti-corruption programme but lobby groups immediately slammed the deal as a lost opportunity. "The sword of justice just got sharper," Qatar Attorney General Ali al-Marri, the ...
UN official says financial crisis a boon for organized crime operating in West AfricaThe world financial crisis offers organized crime a unique opportunity to return to the global banking systems from which it had been barred by sanctions imposed after the Sept ...
UN drug agency chief sees financial crisis as 'golden opportunity' for crimeThe global financial crisis is making it easier for organized crime groups to launder profits from narcotics, human trafficking and other illegal activities, the U.N.'s anti-corruption chief said Thursday ...
Taliban, warlords likely to clear nearly $500 million dollars from drug trade in 2008The Taliban and other warlords could clear almost half a billion dollars from Afghanistan's opium trade this year money that will help finance insurgent attacks, the U.N ...
The US and Britain are preparing to fight the drug trade in Afghanistan, while other NATO nations like Italy do not want to join in, the head of the UN's anti-drugs office said on Thursday.Antonio Maria Costa was speaking after ...
UN warns synthetic drug use on the rise in the developing worldDemand for amphetamines, Ecstasy and other synthetic drugs appears to have stabilized in the West, but the problem is worsening in Asia and spreading to new markets in the Middle East ...
