The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was established in 1997 through a merger between the United Nations Drug Control Programme and the Centre for International Crime Prevention. It makes every effort to integrate and mainstream the gender perspective, particularly in its projects for the provision of alternative livelihoods, as well as those against human trafficking.
UNODC operates in all regions of the world through an extensive network of field offices.
Thematic Areas
- Field-based technical cooperation projects to enhance the capacity of Member States to counteract illicit drugs, crime and terrorism
- Research and analytical work to increase knowledge and understanding of drugs and crime issues and expand the evidence base for policy and operational decisions
- Normative work to assist States in the ratification and implementation of the relevant international treaties, the development of domestic legislation on drugs, crime and terrorism, and the provision of secretariat and substantive services to the treaty-based and governing bodies
Focus Areas
- Organized crime and trafficking
- Corruption
- Crime prevention and criminal justice reform
- Drug abuse prevention and health
- Terrorism Prevention
Topics
- Alternative development
- Corruption
- Crime prevention and criminal justice
- Drug prevention, treatment and care
- Drug trafficking
- Firearms
- Fraudulent medicines
- HIV and AIDS
- Human trafficking and migrant smuggling
- Money-laundering
- Organized crime
- Maritime crime and piracy
- Terrorism prevention
- Wildlife and forest crime
For more information, please visit UNODC.
