UNITED NATIONS OFFICE on DRUGS and CRIME: Established in 1997. Headquarters in Vienna. The office aims long-term to equip governments better to handle drug-, crime-, terrorism-, and corruption-related issues, to maximise knowledge on these issues among governmental institutions and agencies, and also to maximise awareness of said matters in public opinion, globally, nationally and at community level. The main areas that UNODC deals with are: Alternative Development, 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.

But it also has an Environmental focus: The UNODC Global Programme for Combating Wildlife and Forest Crime (GP) is a four-year programme aiming to link existing regional efforts in a global system, enhancing capacity-building and wildlife law enforcement networks at regional and sub-regional levels. The GP is working for and with the wildlife law enforcement community to ensure that wildlife crime, illegal logging, and related crimes are treated as serious transnational organized crimes. Inter alia it seeks to strengthen ‘international co-operation among law enforcement agencies’ and ‘national law enforcement, prosecutorial and judiciary capacity’. It will undertake comprehensive assessments of current actions to combat WLFC at a national level and a priority given to strengthening law enforcement capacity at local, national and regional level.