United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes

More people were killed in homicides during 2017 than were killed in armed conflict, a United Nations report published...

West Africa is facing increased trafficking in opioids, cocaine and methamphetamine, the profits of which often go to armed...

University students in Colombia are preparing for a 32-hour hackathon where they will create apps to tackle human...

Criminals profited up to US$ 7 billion by smuggling at least 2.5 million migrants throughout the world in 2016, which is as...

Leaders of INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reasserted their commitment to jointly combat...

The United Nations Security Council asked its member states on Tuesday to do more to stop terrorists from making money...

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted on Tuesday a resolution calling for a stronger crack down on human trafficking...

Two years after a massive police raid in the renegade Albanian village of Lazarat, not much has changed in the region’s...

In the inaugural launch of the World Wildlife Crime Report, The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and its...

Customs officers seized more than 30 kilograms of heroin Tuesday, worth more than 40 million lev (US $2.2 million), in...

UNODC has released its Southeast Asia Opium Survey 2014 Lao PDR - Myanmar, showing that opium cultivation had risen more...

By Eliza Ronalds-Hannon When European heroin use dipped in the early 2000s, politicians and analysts hailed the news as...