All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... also attended by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) executive director, Mr Antonio Maria Costa was on promoting the rule of law and human security in East Africa.The conference organised by the Kenyan Government and UNODC will focus on issues and threats affecting the region.The minister pointed out that the workshop is a forum to address the issues which...
UN News Centre (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime () has welcomed a new mechanism to monitor and implement a global treaty to fight corruption, the result of week-long negotiations in Doha, Qatar.“This agreement will not end corruption, but it will enable us to measure and fight it,” UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa of the deal reached on Friday.Under the new...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... been put in question if delegates had left Doha empty handed.“This is a significant moment,” said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the U.N.'s office of drugs and crime, which oversees the anti-corruption efforts.Under the new Doha pact, U.N. inspectors and independent groups — such as nongovernment activists and religious envoys — would have access to the public books...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The pact comes after talks in Qatar's capital, Doha, between the United Nations, World Bank and watchdog groups. The head of the U.N. office leading anti-corruption efforts, Antonio Maria Costa, calls it a landmark decision to track and return public funds looted by political leaders and others.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates A U.N. official says an agreement has been reached for sweeping anti-corruption reviews on how countries account for their public assets.
The pact comes after talks in Qatar's capital, Doha, between the United Nations, World Bank and watchdog groups. The head of the U.N. office leading anti-corruption efforts, Antonio Maria Costa, calls it a landmark...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The pact comes after talks in Qatar's capital, Doha, between the United Nations, World Bank and watchdog groups. The head of the U.N. office leading anti-corruption efforts, Antonio Maria Costa, calls it a landmark decision to track and return public funds looted by political leaders and others.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... World Bank and watchdog groups. The head of the U.N. office leading anti-corruption efforts, Antonio Maria Costa, calls it a landmark decision to track and return public funds looted by political leaders and others.The accord opens the way for U.N. inspectors and non-governmental groups to probe more than 140 countries that have signed the U.N. anti-corruption convention.But...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The pact comes after talks in Qatar's capital, Doha, between the United Nations, World Bank and watchdog groups. The head of the U.N. office leading anti-corruption efforts, Antonio Maria Costa, calls it a landmark decision to track and return public funds looted by political leaders and others.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
New York - Drug use by Guinea-Bissau's military has increased, which could result in armies of addicts threatening security as well as development, the UN said Thursday. Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, s...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... drug seizures with West Africa as the suspected source.However, as UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa told the Council, international efforts may have caused the trafficking routes to move further south, or farther inland."The threat to Guinea-Bissau - though less obvious than in the past - is still serious," he stated, noting that there have been reports of smuggling...
Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
By Steve Hynd The $65 billion annual trade in Afghan opium and heroin kills up to 100,000 people every year - dwarfing U.S. troop casualties and outdoing even Afghan civilan deaths from the war there - according to a new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). According to UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa, "we...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... a report issued last week by the United National Office on Drugs and Crime (), executive director Antonio Maria Costa says the intermediaries in the trade are not just "shady characters linked to international mafias, they are also white-collar Afghan officials who take a cut by protecting the drug trade as well as the religious fanatics and political insurgents who do the...
Bread and Circuses (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... chemical precursors, drug money, even people and immigrants said UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa. The Perfect Storm (…) drugs and terrorism may be heading towards Central Asia, said Costa. Much of the region could be involved in large-scale terrorism, endangering its considerable energy resources, he added. Globally, only 20 percent of Afghan opiates are...
HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... to $600 million over the past four years by “taxing” opium farmers and traffickers, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said in a report. Not all the money is going into the pockets of rebels or drug dealers; some Afghan officials are making money off the trade as well, he said. I’m amazed that it even needs to be pointed out that...
PoliBlog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... $450 million to $600 million over the past four years by "taxing" opium farmers and traffickers, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said in a report. Not all the money is going into the pockets of rebels or drug dealers; some Afghan officials are making money off the trade as well, he said. From the report: In 2006-2007, the drug-related funds...
