Medical News Today: New Website Aims To Keep Traffickers From Accessing Aid Money

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) rolled out a new informational website on Tuesday that aims to "prevent arms and drug traffickers from accessing significant humanitarian aid and peacekeeping funds,"  reports. An earlier SIPRI report found that "more than 90 percent of the air cargo carriers identified in arms trafficking-related reports had also been used for humanitarian aid and peace-keeping operations between 2004 and 2009." According to the news service, "[t]he portal, funded by Sweden's governmental aid agency SIDA and the country's foreign ministry, includes a database, model codes of conduct and best practices for negotiations with transport suppliers" (4/19).