The
United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988 is one of three major drug control treaties currently in force. It provides additional legal mechanisms for enforcing the 1961
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the 1971
Convention on Psychotropic Substances. The Convention entered into force on November 11, 1990. As of June 2014, there were 189 Parties to the Convention. These include 185 out of 193
United Nations member states (not
Equatorial Guinea,
Kiribati,
Palau,
Papua New Guinea,
Solomon Islands,
Somalia,
South Sudan, or
Tuvalu) and the
Holy See, the
European Union, the
Cook Islands and
Niue.