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Vice President for National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
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This webinar is part of the Religion and Foreign Policy Program s Social Justice and Foreign Policy series, which explores the relationship between religion and social justice.
FASKIANOS: Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations Social Justice and Foreign Policy webinar series. I m Irina Faskianos, vice president for the National Program and Outreach at CFR. As a reminder, today s webinar is on the record, and the audio, video, and transcript will be made available on our website CFR.org, and on our iTunes podcast channel, Religion and Foreign Policy. As always, CFR takes no institutional positions on matters of policy.
The vast repair work to be undertaken by the Biden administration offers an opportunity to build forward in new ways, including changes to how and where combating human trafficking is operationalized both in terms of diplomacy and development. A relatively easy first step would be to reinstitute the fourth “P” abandoned by the Donald J. Trump administration (in more ways than one): partnership. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton introduced the concept of partnership in recognition of the collaboration needed to reduce and then eradicate human trafficking and modern slavery. Another obvious step will be to quickly nominate the candidate for the ambassador-at-large position at the State Department so that she or he can get confirmed and help oversee the annual report.
Substance abuse
December 30, 2020
According to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Pakistan has 6.7 million drug users out of which more than 4 million are drug addicts. Substance abuse is rife in the country. The main reason for this large number of drug addicts is that drugs are extremely cheap and easy to get.
Even university-going students use drugs on a daily basis. Our government needs to take serious action to deal with this dangerous issue.
Mahnoor Afzal
International operation disrupts illegal firearms trafficking in West Africa, Sahel
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Officers seized firearms, ammunition and explosives. Photo courtesy of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Dec. 21 (UPI) A joint operation led by the United Nations and Interpol has disrupted trafficking networks for terrorist groups in West Africa and Sahel, the United Nations said Monday.
The joint operation, dubbed KAFO II, seized the networks supplies, such as illicit firearms, ammunition and explosives, and led to arrests of a number of suspected terrorists, according to a United Nations statement.
Advertisement Trafficking in firearms is a lucrative business which, in turn, fuels and funds other types of serious crimes, Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock said in the statement. Operation KAFO II shows the need to connect the dots between crime cases involving firearms and terrorists across different countries.
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