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African Union Day of Peace

African leaders declared 2010 the Year of Peace and Security in Africa, culminating with a celebration on September 21 as part of the International Day of Peace. Established by a U.N. resolution in 1982, the Day of Peace provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to perfor...

Aid Through Text Messages

Kenyan citizen journalists developed Ushahidi, a website to map violence during election time based on reports submitted via the Web and mobile phones. Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, has also been used to map xenophobic attacks in South Africa in 2008; monitor elections in Burundi,...

Fighting Piracy

A helicopter from the Japanese Self- Defense Force hovers above a coast guard boat off the coast. The exercise occurred near the Kure Naval Base in Hiroshima during an antipiracy drill in 2009. To continue its fight against piracy, Japan is opening its first overseas base in Djibouti, a small Afr...

Training Together

Afghan Army Soldiers conduct a joint patrol with Canadian Soldiers in the Panjwayi district, southwest of Kandahar, in June 2010. Canadian troops are taking part in the efforts of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force to increase the capabilities of the Afghan Army. Building a credible A...

The Fight Against Human Trafficking

Mexico has become the first country to launch a national version of the United Nations-led Blue Heart campaign against human trafficking. As part of Mexico’s launch in April 2010, more than a dozen iconic buildings were lit up in blue across the capital, Mexico City.

Drug Traffickers Increasingly Sophisticated

In the past three years, the seizure of narcotics transported from Latin America to West Africa has gone down, according to figures from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, or UNODC. In 2007, 15 tons passed through Central and West Africa, but only 5.5 tons were counted in 2008. That does not mea...

Fighting Extortion in El Salvador

Campaign uses Mexican TV personality to empower Salvadorans

Combating Organized Crime in the Region

Authorities in Honduras are encouraging citizens to immediately call their local police rather than national law enforcement when pressured by extortionists.