United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Asset recovery (chapter V)

In a major breakthrough during the negotiations of the Convention, countries agreed that asset recovery should be one of the fundamental principles of the Convention. Asset recovery is the process by ...
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Operation SAMA III results in 164 seizures of wildlife and other contraband across 12 countries in Africa

July 2026 - The third iteration of Operation SAMA (Saving Wildlife through Multilateral Cooperation in Africa) has concluded, ...
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Advancing Asset Recovery and Judicial Cooperation through Expert Dialogue

Go to Home Advancing Asset Recovery and Judicial Cooperation through Expert Dialogue . June 2026, Neum, Bosnia and ...
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Effective and Balanced Response to Drug-related Crimes in North Macedonia

On 30 June, the UNODC Regional Office for South-Eastern Europe (ROSEE) facilitated a roundtable discussion on the drug ...
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

MPPA and UNODC promote workshop on timber supply chain enforcement protocols in Pará

The Public Prosecutor's Office of the State of Pará (MPPA), through its Environmental Operational Support Center (CAO ...
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Transnational Organized Crime in West Africa: A Threat Assessment

This report is one of several studies conducted by UNODC on organized crime threats around the world. These studies describe what is known about the mechanics of contraband trafficking - the what, who ...