🚩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.
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