https://www.scmp.com/rss/310890/feed Yury Fedotov is executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com “When I refused to sell my body, they sold me to another brothel.” This is the heart-rending testimony of a 13-year-old Nepalese girl named Skye, trafficked by relatives to India. Skye’s story ends better than most. Together with her sister, Skye escaped from the brothel, returned to school and now works for the Nepalese organisation that rescued her: the globally renowned Shakti Samuha. But, for every survivor like Skye, thousands suffer in silence, gagged by the threat of violence and... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2112824/global-agreement-migration-can-deliver-blow-traffickers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2112824/global-agreement-migration-can-deliver-blow-traffickers?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:44:35 +0000 Five years ago, we were in St. Petersburg at the International Forum for Tiger Conservation working with many others to conserve the wild tiger in its natural habitats. At the time, the tiger was hanging on to existence by its claws. Reduced to little more than 3,000 in the wild, the animal was slowly being hunted, skinned and trafficked into oblivion. Tragically, the tiger has been joined on extinction's edge by a number of other emblematic animals, such as wild populations of rhinos and... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1875883/targeting-corruption-key-saving-endangered-species?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1875883/targeting-corruption-key-saving-endangered-species?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Nov 2015 04:24:27 +0000 Bella could be anyone. Bella could be a young girl named after the lead character in the popular Twilight movies, but she is not. Bella is a northern white rhino in Uganda's Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and she is every bit as popular as the Twilight character, only with all the wrong people. No one wants to follow Bella on Facebook or Twitter, ring her name in bright lights, or shower her with awards; instead, poachers want her dead, so they can harvest her priceless rhino horn. Today, there are fewer... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1727526/make-poachers-pay-high-price-slaughter-wildlife?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1727526/make-poachers-pay-high-price-slaughter-wildlife?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Mar 2015 05:15:15 +0000 Today is World Wildlife Day, but this is not a time to celebrate our planet’s infinite biodiversity. We are living in a world where some of our most loved animals are fast disappearing from their habitats. These animals are the victims of poachers and criminal networks who care nothing for the environment, and everything for profit. There are now little more than 3,000 tigers left in the wild, rhino populations have also been decimated and thousands of elephants are being senselessly slaughtered... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1439116/how-tracking-their-financial-footprint-can-keep-poachers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1439116/how-tracking-their-financial-footprint-can-keep-poachers?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:44:48 +0000 Johnson and Johnson's massive US$2.2 billion payment to settle allegations in the US, that included alleged sweeteners to doctors, mirrors similar investigations in China of GlaxoSmithKline. When broadly similar problems arise in different parts of the world, under different legislative frameworks, it is hard not to conclude that corruption remains a serious challenge in the private sector. Businesses are the financial backbone of our societies, we need them profitable and employing people, but... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1361172/integrity-and-transparency-needed-cure-corruption-business?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1361172/integrity-and-transparency-needed-cure-corruption-business?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:45:00 +0000