United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UAE)

UNODC is the global leader in the fight against crime, drugs and terrorism. UNODC Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA) was established in 1997 in Cairo, Egypt with a view to providing technical assistance to the countries of the region to respond to trafficking in drugs, persons, weapons and artifacts, and to other forms of transnational organized crime, including terrorism, corruption, money laundering, and migrant smuggling. UNODC ROMENA covers all the countries part of the Regional Programme: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. In addition to the Regional Office, there are two Subregional Programme Offices, in Tripoli (Libya) and Abu Dhabi (UAE), and six Programme Offices in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen. All these offices have more than 75 staff members. Efforts are being exerted to expand the UNODC presence in the region, and open new Programme Offices as the portfolio