The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been helping make the world safer from drugs, organized crime, corruption and terrorism. We are committed to achieving health, security and justice for all by tackling these threats and promoting peace and sustainable well-being as deterrents to them. Because the scale of these problems is often too great for states to confront alone, UNODC offers practical assistance and encourages transnational approaches to action. The Office is committed to supporting Member States in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at its core. The 2030 Agenda clearly recognizes that the rule of law and fair, effective and humane justice systems, as well as health-oriented responses to drug use, are both enablers for and part of sustainable development.

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Transnational organized crimes have significantly grown to to pose a grieve threat to the national and international security. With having dire implications for public safety, public health, economic stability, and democratic institutions throughout the globe, these transnational organized crimes are not only expanding but also diversifying their activities paving way for the convergence of the threats that were once  distinct but have now molded themselves to have explosive and destabilizing effects. Despite having counterdrug successes in the recent years, primarily against the cocaine trade, illicit drugs have remained a major threat to the health, safety, financial and the security well being. The demand for the illicit drugs both in the united states and abroad has fueled the power, impunity and violence of criminal organizations across the globe. The mexican DTOs are escalating their violence in order to consolidate their market share within the western hemisphere, to protect their operations in the Mexico and to expand their reach in the united states. Talking about the west Africa, the Latin American cartels are exploiting the local criminal organizations to move cocaine to the western Europe and the middle east. There have been several instances of Afghan DTOs operating with the west Africa to smuggle heroin to the united states and the Europe and this does not end there. As the world has become increasing wired and now wireless, it is only natural that the transnational organized crimes have moved into the digital age. The use of these sophisticated information systems is no longer the realm of the hackers and the coders, it is serving as the new realm for the drug dealer, the extortionist and the illegal gambler. for nearly two decades now the united nations office on drugs has been helping to make world safer from drugs, organized crime, corruption and terrorism. The issue at hand is really sensitive and extremely essential to be discussed.