The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna, adopting the current name in 2002.

The agency's focus is the trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs, crime prevention and criminal justice, international terrorism, and political corruption.

The Agenda:
Discussing the proliferation of death rates due to the violence and coercion of drug cartels in Latin, Central, and South American countries as a form of organized crime.