UNODC
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC was established in 2004. Located in Vienna, it is the administrative centre for the UN programmes on drug control and crime prevention. It operates through its country and regional field offices worldwide.
Activities
The three cornerstones of the UNODC work are:
- research and analytical work on drugs and crime issues;
- supporting the implementation of international treaties among its Member States, as well as the development of domestic legislation on drugs, crime and terrorism;
- technical cooperation projects to enhance the capacity of the Member States to counteract illicit drugs, crime and terrorism.
More on UNODC
- The UNODC website provides background information, news, conventions, documents and reports.
- World Drug Report provides a comprehensive overview of illicit drug trends at the international level.
- Bulletin on Narcotics contains technical and scientific articles on narcotic drugs.
- UNODC Treaties. UN crime- and drug-related conventions.
- TRACK - Tools and Resources for Anti-Corruption Knowledge, UNODC anti-corruption portal with Legal Library where you can access legal information and links to relevant state authorities.
- dataUNODC UNODC regularly updates statistical series on crime, criminal justice, drug trafficking and prices, drug production, and drug use, as well as prisons and prisoners and more.
- Institutes of the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network. List of specialized agencies and interregional and regional institutes.
- UNOCD and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Key UN documents
- UN Charter in Swedish | in English
- UN System Chart
- Yearbook of the United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swedish | in English
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- Statue of the International Court of Justice
UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases
- United Nations Digital Library. UN official documents and open access publications, UN maps, UN voting data and speeches.
- UN iLibrary. UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS. UN documents published from 1993 onward and scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993 in the official languages of the UN.
- Daily list of documents (ODS). Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus is a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
- Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
- a list of all documents
- a comprehensive subject index
- an index to speeches
- a voting chart of resolutions
- United Nations Documents Index (in United Nations Digital Library). References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, Sweden and the UN Library in New York and the UN library in Geneva.