Countering Criminal Enterprises, Illicit Financial Flows, and Corrupt Practices
Ensuring supply-chain security: the role of anti-counterfeiting technologies
A new study prepared by UNICRI on the role of anti-counterfeiting technologies in increasing governments’ and citizens’ safety will be presented during an event co-organized by the World Bank and UNICRI, in the framework of the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development.
The trafficking in counterfeit goods has grown to epidemic proportions across the globe. Currently, replicated goods have infiltrated almost every production sector, such as those of medicines, food and beverages, spare parts, toys, cosmetics, and electrical components.
An Expert Workshop focusing on illegal, counterfeit and substandard pesticides was organized in Turin by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) on 1-2 October 2015.
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), the World Bank, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and Assonime are organizing a workshop on anti-counterfeiting technologies.
The workshop, that will be held at the EXPO Venice 2015 on 9 September 2015 from 14:30 to 18:30, will focus on the positive impact of anti-counterfeiting technologies on the protection of Intellectual Property Rigths (IPRs), economic development and the fight against organized crime.
Addressing the multifaceted problem of falsified medicines
A Conference in Geneva to discuss innovative and integrated approaches
A Conference on falsified medicines has been organized by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) at the Room XII of the Palais des Nations.
Building an effective cooperation mechanism against falsified medicines
The establishment of a public-private stakeholders group in Romania
Falsified medicines are a serious and complex problem that poses a great danger to patients and citizens at large. Creating a strategy to effectively counter this threat requires the combination of several elements as well as the involvement of different stakeholders.
A conference to discuss organized crime involvement and prevention strategies
Turin, 29 January 2014
Counterfeit medicines is a serious problem affecting every country in the world and posing a great danger to patients and citizens at large. The conference which will take place in Turin on 29 January, is organized by the Observatory on Counterfeiting of the Province of Turin, the Turin Chamber of Commerce and PATLIB in cooperation with UNICRI and Italian Customs Agency.
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and ICC Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) released a new report advocating the confiscation of the proceeds of crime as an effective tool which governments can implement against the infiltration of transnational organized crime into the illicit business of counterfeiting and piracy.
