✴️🚩United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).👉

🚩What do you understand by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

✅The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was established in order to make the world a place without the dangers of Drug Abuse and the crimes following it.

✅It was formed in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining two UN offices.

✅It was renamed to its current name in 2002.

✅It was established chiefly to aid the United Nations in addressing the issues of illicit drug trafficking, drug abuse, prevention of crime and criminal justice, political corruption and international terrorism, in a coordinated and comprehensive manner.

✅ Functions-  Research and Policy Analysis 👉World Drug Report

👉Surveys to Monitor Illicit Crops

👉Regional Crime Studies 

👉Policy Reviews

✅Normative Activities [Conventions]

👉Anti-Drug Conventions

👉Conventions against Organized Crime [UNTOC]

👉Conventions against Corruption [UNCAC]

🚩Some extra bites 🚩

✴️Colombo Declaration✴️

🔱In 2016, 18 littoral states adopted a resolution ✋ to make the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), a Drug-Free Zone.

🔱 It was held at a meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka and the declaration came to be known as the Colombo Declaration.