United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC)

The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) was adopted in 2000 to promote cooperation to prevent and combat transnational organized crime more effectively. UNTOC is supplemented by three Protocols against Trafficking in Persons, Smuggling of Migrants and Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms respectively.

 https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/intro/UNTOC.html

Pursuant to article 32 (1) of UNTOC, a Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention was established to improve the capacity of States Parties to combat transnational organized crime and to promote and review the implementation of this Convention. The COP holds regular sessions every two years, although its work carries on year-round through its extended Bureau and with the support of the Secretariat.

https://www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/UNTOC/COP/SESSION_10/Website/Practical_info/UNTOC_at_20.pdf

UNTOC is commemorating 20^th Anniversary and UNODC will be hosting several side events.

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/untoc20/index.html

The UNODC Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSAF) supports the organization of the following side events, as relevant to the southern Africa region:

• Combatting Transnational Organized Crime and its links to Illicit Trafficking in Precious Metals and Illegal Mining including by Enhancing the Security of Supply Chains of Precious Metals.
• Twenty Years of the UN’s Trafficking in Persons Protocol – Past, Present and Future.
• Combatting Illicit Financial Flows in the Sub-Saharan African Region: A Look at Regional Network and other initiatives.

For more information on registration please contact Tshifhiwa Mukumela at tshifhiwa.mukumela@un.org