
By TRAVIS DOVE and ANDREW JACOBS from NYT Science https://ift.tt/2YGtYzu
Shan State (Myanmar), 2 August 2019 - Moe Ohn cannot stop grinning as she picks the ruby-red coffee beans of the bushes in Shan State. The future after all, seems much brighter. Moe Ohn, who is from Htant Hpa Yar village in Hopong township, belongs to a cooperative: Green Gold. Thanks to the hard work of farmers like Moe Ohn, Green Gold this week became the first coffee cooperative in Myanmar to be awarded Fairtrade Certification.
1 August 2019 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) observed the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on 30 July by organizing a wide range of events around the globe to highlight this heinous crime. UNODC offices worldwide engaged with local authorities and communities, guided by the 2019 World Day theme "Human Trafficking: Call your Government to Action."
29 July 2019 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Country Office for Nigeria and Regional Office for West Africa organized a meeting in Lagos on 24 and 25 July 2019 to discuss the findings of a study on tramadol and other pharmaceutical opioids trafficking in West Africa funded by the European Union (EU). The study will be published by the end of the year.