About United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 

• Established in 1997, UNODC is a global leader in the fight against illicit drugs and international crime.
• The work of the UNODC is guided by a broad range of international legally binding instruments, such as the three drug control conventions, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its protocols, the UN Convention against Corruption, the UN standards and norms on crime prevention and criminal justice and nineteen universal legal instruments against terrorism.
• It is headquartered in Vienna.

Why in News?

• The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has released its latest World Drug Report.

Highlights of the Report

• The fourth highest seizure of opium (four tonne) in 2018 was reported from India, after Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
• In terms of heroin seizure (1.3 tonnes), India was at the 12th position in the world.

Opium production

• The global area under opium poppy cultivation declined for the second year in a row in 2019.
• Asia, which is host to more than 90% of global illicit opium production and the world’s largest consumption market for opiates, accounted for almost 80% of all opiates seized worldwide in 2018.
• The main opiate trafficking flows originate from three key production areas: Afghanistan, Myanmar-Laos and Mexico-Colombia-Guatemala.
• About 84% of the total opium was produced in Afghanistan, from where it is supplied to neighbouring countries, Europe, Middle East, South Asia and Africa.

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