INTERVIEW: Policing one of the world’s ‘biggest drug trafficking corridors’

adminJune 29, 2023September 14, 2024012 mins

The effort is centred on the Golden Triangle, where the borders of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos meet and from where illicit items including drugs are trafficked to lucrative markets across Southeast Asia. UN News spoke with Jeremy Douglas, the Regional Representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for Southeast Asia and the…

Earthquake disaster: UN chief welcomes Syria decision to open aid corridors

adminFebruary 13, 2023September 10, 202409 mins

Only a single crossing point – Bab al-Hawa – has been open to humanitarians since the 6 February earthquakes struck across the border region of southern Türkiye and northwest Syria, which has been in the grip of civil war for the past 12 years, and is the last remaining region partly under the control of…