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The effects of corruption are “detrimental to all of society”, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Wednesday during the first day of a special session convened to galvanize political will to fight the scourge.
“We cannot pretend that there were no issues before the COVID-19 pandemic”, said Volkan Bozkir. “Transnational financial crime and corruption are unfortunately commonplace in our interconnected, interdependent world”.
He said that it affects decision-making processes and “remains one of the most critical challenges for States, institutions, and communities”.
The #UNGASS2021 Political Declaration entitled “Our common commitment to effectively addressing challenges and implementing measures to prevent and combat corruption and strengthen international cooperation” has been adopted #UnitedAgainstCorruptionpic.twitter.com/Q5MlArUG6I
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Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) Elects New Chairman
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The newly elected chair of the Ministerial Council of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), Hon. Saboto S. Caesar, Minister of Agriculture, Rural Transformation, Forestry and Fisheries of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, has urged fellow ministers responsible for Fisheries across the Caribbean to prioritize the Blue Economy as the region seeks to strengthen COVID-19 recovery efforts.
The ‘Blue Economy’ is an emerging concept that encourages better use and conservation of the ocean or ‘blue’ resources to boost economic growth and to tackle unemployment, food security and poverty.
The Ministerial Council has been forced to meet virtually since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that has not stopped them from making monumental progress in steering the fisheries and aquaculture sector forward, with carefully designed policies and plans, despite very challenging times.
Commercial sexual exploitation of children in South Eastern Europe 19 May 2021
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime’s Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe published a new report on commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in the region, called ‘Exploited in plain sight – an Assessment of commercial sexual exploitation of children and child protection responses in the Western Balkans. LSI’s members representatives; Stojne Atanasovska Dimishkovska and Marija Todorovska of Open Gate in North Macedonia and Marija Andjelković of ASTRA in Serbia contributed to the report.
The report provides an overview of the different manifestations of CSEC, assessed the impact of COVID-19 on the phenomenon and analyzed the perpetrators’ role as well as the profile of children vulnerable to CSEC across the region. While the findings of this report show that the number of CSEC cases registered overall is low for the 6 countries, the
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