The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the social and political role of the League of Nation in the realms of criminal justice and human welfare, supposedly marginal to the larger political processes of the time. Two of the League's Advisory Committees marked Egypt as international hub for illegal traffic – the international traffic in drugs (cannabis, opium, heroin and cocaine); and traffic in women for prostitution. Egypt's strategic location as a crossroad between oceans and continents; coupled with the Capitulations – the legal privileges that foreign nationals enjoyed on Egyptian soil until their abolition in 1937 – indeed attracted to Egypt outlaws of all kinds, and made it a regional, even global center for illegal traffic. The Advisory Committee on Traffic in Women and Children (CTW) noted the migration of prostitutes and procurers to Egypt; and the Opium Committee seriously discussed the dangers of the Capitulations to international drug traffic. The proposed paper examines, first, how Egypt looked like from Geneva – how both committees saw the drug traffic and traffic in women in the Egyptian case, and how these committees' policy recommendations and conventions were affected by the Egyptian case. Here, I show how central Egypt was in the CTW's mapping of the Mediterranean; and in the Opium committee's understanding of cannabis. From there, it questions how the League's deliberations and reports affected Egyptian public opinion and official policies. Egyptian feminists and Islamists used the CTW's reports to pressure the British authorities to abolish licensed brothels. With regards to drug traffic, Russell Pasha, the head of the Egyptian Police, used the Opium Committee to place Egypt (and particularly himself) on the forefront of international war on drugs – and to change drug policies in Egypt itself.