A United Nations agency focused on the trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs, crime prevention and criminal justice, international terrorism, and political corruption, publishing global crime and drug-use data and standard-setting frameworks such as the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Institution TypeSourced to the subject's own accountUnited Nations agency and international standard-setting body. 1 Founded YearSourced to the subject's own accountEstablished as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the UN International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division. HeadquartersSourced to the subject's own account Institution Type
Institution Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Connections
Associated With
UNODC and Interpol coordinate on international crime data and law-enforcement cooperation, though they are separate organizations with distinct mandates and founding charters.
Source Wikipedia: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Narcoterrorism, Offenses Narcoterrorism sits at the documented overlap of two of UNODC's own listed themes, drug control and terrorism prevention.
Source Wikipedia: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNODC administers the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the leading international legal framework against organized crime.
Source Wikipedia: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
The cited passage names UNODC's drug-control theme rather than precursor chemicals by name; UNODC's administration of the international precursor-chemical control conventions is well documented elsewhere but not in this specific passage, so this edge is scoped to UNODC's general drug-control mandate rather than a precursor-specific claim.
Source Wikipedia: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Money laundering is named directly among UNODC's own listed themes; trade-based money laundering is one of the principal methods by which criminal proceeds are disguised as legitimate trade the office's Global Programme against Money Laundering addresses.
Source Wikipedia: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Europe, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
"Aims and functions" section
UNODC was established to assist the UN in better addressing a coordinated, comprehensive response to the interrelated issues of illicit trafficking in and abuse of drugs, crime prevention and criminal justice, international terrorism, and political corruption.
Lead section
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is a United Nations office that was established in 1997.
History section
The United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna were merged to form the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention.
- Associated With: Organized Crime
- Associated With: Interpol
Associated With: Precursor Chemical Trafficking, Aims and functions section
These are the main themes that UNODC deals with: alternative development, anti-corruption, criminal justice, prison reform and crime prevention, drug prevention, treatment and care, HIV and AIDS, human trafficking and migrant smuggling, money laundering, organized crime, piracy, terrorism prevention.
Associated With: Narcoterrorism, Aims and functions section
These are the main themes that UNODC deals with: alternative development, anti-corruption, criminal justice, prison reform and crime prevention, drug prevention, treatment and care, HIV and AIDS, human trafficking and migrant smuggling, money laundering, organized crime, piracy, terrorism prevention.
Associated With: Trade-Based Money Laundering, Aims and functions section
These are the main themes that UNODC deals with: alternative development, anti-corruption, criminal justice, prison reform and crime prevention, drug prevention, treatment and care, HIV and AIDS, human trafficking and migrant smuggling, money laundering, organized crime, piracy, terrorism prevention.
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