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DAILY MESSENGER
(A Daily News Brief from UNODC South Asia on security, human rights, the rule of law and health)
03 July 2018
03 July 2018
Bangladesh
At least 122 people have been killed in 'gunfights' with members of law enforcement agencies as part of the countrywide anti-narcotic drives since 15 May.
Sharp rise in sexual abuse of children, The Dhaka Tribune
Incidents of violence towards children have seen a sharp rise in the first six months of this year and 2018 is likely to be more horrible for children compared to 2017.
World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim has said Bangladesh needs more support from the world to help close to a million Rohingya refugees driven by violence from Myanmar.
Is Bangladesh still under militancy threat?, The Dhaka Tribune
Two years on, law enforcement officials say the militant groups have mostly been neutralized.
Bhutan
When bullying happens to the young and vulnerable, consequences are often sad and painful.
In a murder case, a court has ruled that since the country’s culture and tradition believe in spirit possession, it could accept it as circumstantial and corroborative evidence in accordance with the Evidence Act.
India
At a meeting chaired by chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, the Punjab cabinet has decided to send a formal recommendation to the Centre at the earliest to amend the legislation involved.
Time to act tough: Ministers to CM, The Tribune
Drug deaths stir Government of Punjab into action.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Ahmedabad, and Food and Drugs Control Administration (FDCA), Gujarat, seized more than 42,000 bottles of safe cod codeine phosphate cough syrup from Patan and Ahmedabad.
Police put chemists on notice, The Tribune
Cops says erring medical store owners will be brought to book.
Investigators are struggling to keep up as more drug sales take place on the dark web, often settled in cryptocurrencies.
BSF to roll out advanced border management system along Pakistan, Bangladesh border, The Hindustan Times
The Border Security Force (BSF) will soon roll out the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) along the 2,400-km vulnerable stretch along the international border (IB) adjoining Pakistan and Bangladesh.
A global survey exposes a vicious cultural agreement that women have little value in our society.
The Inconvenient Truth: Reuters Survey On India's Women Needs To Be Taken In The Right Spirit, News 18
The latest government data shows that reported cases of crimes against women in India rose by 83% between 2007 and 2016, when there were about hundred cases of rape reported every day.
Mandsaur rape case: Child rights experts slam Madhya Pradesh's death penalty for raping minors, Firstpost
In 2017, the Madhya Pradesh Assembly unanimously passed a Bill introducing the death penalty for those found guilty of raping minors aged 12 years or less.
In many cases of lynching, locally organised cow protection groups take the lead and incite mob violence against hapless victims.
Incidents involving fake rumors spread via WhatsApp have increased across India in the last month.
Narendra Modi directs security agencies and state govts to step up countermeasures against extremism, Firstpost
With growing concerns over indoctrination through social media, end-to-end encrypted apps and audio-video clips on the dark web, the government is laying the groundwork with the help of states to mount a grand offensive against multifaceted radicalisation threats, in a bid to neutralise potential sources advocating violent extremism.
Skin ailments rampant among prisoners in Maharashtra, The Times of India
“Fungal infections, scabies and eczema are widespread in jails. Hygiene is an issue perhaps because of rationing on soaps, clothes.”
The Supreme Court has passed a slew of directions on police reforms in the country and ordered all states and Union territories to not appoint any police officer as acting Director General of Police (DGP).
Making the fight against poaching and smuggling of flora and fauna in the country stronger, the Maharashtra police will soon be trained in the investigation of wildlife crimes.
Maldives
The drugs were going to be smuggled into the Maldives in vegetable oil cans, it was reported.
Maldives Customs have confiscated a total of 6.87 kilograms of drugs from luggage of two separate arrivals to Maldives.
Islam, infrastructure and foreign pressure: Maldives president on campaign trail, The Maldives Independent
The president slammed foreign interference and vowed harsh punishments for Maldivians who insult Islam.
Nepal
A meeting of the House of Representative has passed the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (First Amendment) Bill.
Interpol issues Red Notice for 83 Nepalis, The Himalayan Times
International Criminal Police Organisation has issued Red Notice for 85 persons, including two foreigners, on the request of National Central Bureau, Kathmandu.
Recalibrating Nepal’s foreign policy, The Kathmandu Post
The government must seriously deliberate on matters of foreign polices to take the country to greater heights.
Sri Lanka
163 cocaine pills worth Rs.48.5 million have been recovered from two Brazilians after they were arrested by the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) at the Bandaranaike International Airport.
Sri Lanka, as a country that had experienced first-hand the suffering of its people due to terrorism, emphasized that a key pillar of counter-terrorism is prevention and addressing the root causes of conflict.
Sri Lanka has come a long way since voters in 2015 rejected the corruption, strife and repression of the past and threw their support behind a reform, reconciliation and accountability agenda, incoming US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives Alaina Teplitz said.
International
Fentanyl is a highly addictive synthetic opioid that the Center for Disease Control says is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
In the fight against human trafficking a multi-sector approach is key, The Bangkok Post
While government initiative is paramount, NGO, labour, industry and government representatives acknowledge the need to work together to protect workers' rights.
African leaders pledge to defeat Islamic extremism as Macron visits, The Sydney Morning Herald
African heads of state have pledged to coordinate efforts to improve the continent's security and defeat jihadist groups, particularly in Nigeria and the Sahel region, during talks at the 31st African Union summit held in Mauritania's capital.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested Tuesday by anti-graft investigators and will be charged over his alleged role in the multibillion-dollar looting of a state investment fund.
UNODC World
UNODC co-organized with Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, the Netherlands, and the United States an Arria-formula meeting on maritime crime as a threat to international peace and security.
UN chief hears ‘heartbreaking accounts’ of suffering from Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, UN News Centre
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, declaring that “nothing could have prepared me for the scale of the crisis and extent of suffering” he witnessed there.
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