Welcome to UNODC South Eastern Europe

 

UNODC is a global leader in the fight against illicit drugs, transnational organized crime, terrorism, and corruption, and is the custodian of most of the related conventions, particularly:

• The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its 3 protocols( Trafficking in Persons; Smuggling of Migrants; and Trafficking in Firearms)
• The United Nations Convention against Corruption
• The International Drug Control Conventions
• International legal framework against terrorism
• United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice

 

   

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has been resident as a Project Office in Bulgaria since 1999. It started with a regional Joint UNDCP - Phare Programme for Strengthening Drug Law Enforcement Capacities in South Eastern Europe.

Currently, UNODC South Eastern Europe is a network of six offices, a Regional Programme Office based in Bulgaria and five satellite project offices (Albania, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey).

UNODC South Eastern Europe is implementing 12 national and regional projects, scaling up its interventions to fight drugs and crime and has also implemented SEE components of the global projects on the Paris Pact Initiative and the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT). In addition, the Regional Programme to promote the Rule of law and Human security in SEE has been recently launched.