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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been helping make the world safer from drugs, organized crime, corruption and terrorism in Eastern Africa and around the world.

17/08/2026

From large companies to small and medium-sized enterprises, everyone has a role in preventing corruption.

UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime & United Nations Global Compact e-learning course equips employees with skills to act with integrity in everyday situations: https://bit.ly/4gXFiPz

"Behind every traffic statistic is a human life: a victim, a family, a motorist, a pedestrian, or a passenger whose life...
07/08/2026

"Behind every traffic statistic is a human life: a victim, a family, a motorist, a pedestrian, or a passenger whose life may be permanently affected. The answer, however, cannot simply be more prosecutions."

Remarks delivered on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions at the internal validation workshop on Kenya's draft Guidelines for the Prosecution of Traffic Offences.

The guidelines aim to ensure that the justice system responds proportionately to minor infractions — and concentrates its full force on the offences that cost lives.

Supported by UNODC under the EU-funded PLEAD II programme.

Follow us for updates as the guidelines move towards launch, and share this post to help build a justice system that protects every road user.

Strengthening Community-Based Justice in Meru and Narok through Alternative Justice Systems The United Nations Office on...
04/08/2026

Strengthening Community-Based Justice in Meru and Narok through Alternative Justice Systems

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in partnership with the Probation and Aftercare Service (PACS), and through the European Union-funded PLEAD II Programme, supported a three-day sensitization and capacity-building programme on Alternative Justice Systems (AJS) for community justice actors in Meru and Narok counties.

Meru and Narok have strong community structures and rich traditions of community-led dispute resolution that have long played an important role in maintaining social harmony and resolving conflicts. The training sought to strengthen these mechanisms and align them with the principles set out in Kenya's Alternative Justice Systems Policy Framework and Article 159 of the Constitution, which recognizes and promotes alternative forms of dispute resolution.

The programme brought together elders, religious leaders, local administrators, women and youth representatives, persons with disabilities, probation officers, and other community justice actors to enhance their knowledge of AJS processes, restorative justice, human rights safeguards, and effective collaboration with formal justice institutions.

Discussions highlighted the important role of AJS in expanding access to justice, providing appropriate alternatives to imprisonment, contributing to prison decongestion, supporting the diversion of children away from formal criminal justice processes, and promoting peaceful, community-centred resolution of disputes. Participants also explored how strengthened community justice mechanisms can empower communities to address conflicts early, foster reconciliation, and promote social cohesion while ensuring that justice remains accessible, inclusive, and rights-based.

By strengthening the capacity of community justice actors and reinforcing collaboration between community-based and formal justice systems, the initiative contributes to a more responsive and people-centred justice system that leaves no one behind.

Over 100+ justice actors benefited from the sensitization training

Trafficking for forced criminality is an evolving global threat. As response efforts intensify in Southeast Asia, crimin...
30/07/2026

Trafficking for forced criminality is an evolving global threat.
As response efforts intensify in Southeast Asia, criminal networks are shifting operations to new frontiers, including countries in the region like Madagascar and Uganda.
Learn how UNODC is responding to this threat: https://unodc.org/unodc/en/endht/index.html

30/07/2026

A fake job offer can become a trafficking trap.

Criminal networks lure people with promises of legitimate work. Instead, many are trafficked into scam operations, where they are stripped of their freedom and forced to carry out online fraud under threats, violence, debt and fear.

Preventing this crime requires stronger oversight of recruitment agencies, safe labour migration pathways and greater awareness of deceptive recruitment practices.

This World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, let’s shine light on the many human trafficking victims trapped behind scams.

29/07/2026

Learning to Serve: Inside Kenya's Police eLearning Programme

What does better policing look like? It begins with capacity building of the law enforcers with the right knowledge.

Our new video report goes inside the National Police Service eLearning Programme, where officers across the country are strengthening their skills through continuous learning and professional development through the uptake of eleven practical modules, from criminal investigations and change management to trauma handling and child protection.

This commitment to lifelong learning is helping build a more responsive, professional, and community-focused service, better equipped to prevent crime, protect vulnerable groups, and serve the public effectively.

Get to hear from officers, trainers, partners, and young Kenyans on what better, rights-based policing means for communities and for access to justice for every citizen.

Implemented by UNODC with the National Police Service and funded by the European Union under the initiative.

▶ Watch here: https://youtu.be/ao9qrKAoqUY?si=QrnMfOteuqudFE8V


28/07/2026

"Very few people know" the project an Ambassador chose to talk about on her way out

Speaking on Nation FM this morning, outgoing European Union Ambassador to Kenya Henriette Geiger was asked which projects she remains most attached to after five years.

Her answer began with the justice sector.

"We have a very, very ambitious project to reform the entire judiciary," she said. "The whole justice chain — and we digitize the justice chain. We green the justice chain. We solarize."

She recalled visiting the Remand Prison in Nairobi, where virtual hearings now connect detainees directly to courts. "They can do more than 70 hearings per day from the prison with the different courts. It would take months for them to do this shipping people to the court."

This is the work UNODC is proud to implement with Kenya's justice institutions, with the support of the European Union — digital, greener and more accessible justice, delivered by national institutions in the counties where people actually seek it.

Ambassador Geiger arrived in Kenya in 2021 and now retires from a career of more than 30 years in EU service. She leaves behind a partnership she described not as donorship, but as one "of equals."

Asante sana, Balozi. Thank you for seeing this work, and for helping make it possible. 🇰🇪🇪🇺

European Union in Kenya UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

What does rehabilitation look like at Bosasso Prison?🔨 Skills to rebuild a life💼 A path to an honest living🔓 Breaking cy...
18/07/2026

What does rehabilitation look like at Bosasso Prison?

🔨 Skills to rebuild a life
💼 A path to an honest living
🔓 Breaking cycles of poverty and exclusion

Read Bilal Ali’s story 👉 https://shorturl.at/9DT3r

Supported by European Union in Somalia
and Embassy of the Netherlands in Kenya

"Everyone deserves dignity."To mark , UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Center for Justice - Ethiopi...
18/07/2026

"Everyone deserves dignity."

To mark , UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Center for Justice - Ethiopia brought together the Prison Commission, development partners, civil society, academia and media for a dialogue on prison reform and access to justice in Ethiopia.

Four insightful presentations were followed by an engaging discussion on rehabilitation, reintegration and human rights.

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