From 17 to 21 October 2022, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) will have the opportunity to join Member States in Vienna and in online for the 11th session of Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (CoP UNTOC). This year’s session is the first time parties to the convention will meet since the launch of the UNTOC Review Mechanism in 2020.
The UNODC Civil Society Unit (CSU) will facilitate the participation of CSOs and will organize and co-organize a range of events during the week, including an NGO briefing, informal dialogue with UNODC Executive Director, and side events. All side events will take place in a hybrid or fully online format.
Event: Civil society roundtable
Date: Monday 17 October | Time: 08:15–09:00 (CEST) Vienna
Organized by the Government of the United States and facilitated by the UNODC Civil Society Unit
Room: M2 (M-building)
Event: NGO briefing
Date: Monday 17 October | Time: 09:15–09:45 (CEST) Vienna
Organized by UNODC Civil Society Unit and the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Room: M2 (M-building)
Side event: Cross-cutting Evidence based intervention on drugs and crime in Africa for the Implementation of UNODC strategic Vision for Africa
Date: Monday 17 October | Time: 13:00–13:45 (CEST) Vienna
Organized by Slum Child Foundation with UNODC Civil Society Unit, Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs, Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Register before 16 October: https://bit.ly/3dOdRt8
Side event: Meaningfully Engaging Youth in UNODC mandate areas: The UNTOC Youth Consultation and the UNODC Youth Empowerment Accelerator Framework
Date: Tuesday 18 October | Time: 13:00–13:45 (CEST) Vienna
Organized by UNODC Strategic Planning and Inter-Agency Affairs Unit and the UNODC Civil Society Unit with the Government of Japan.
Register before 16 October: https://forms.office.com/r/YfX7TELeVk
Event: NGO informal dialogue with UNODC Executive Director
Date: Tuesday 19 October | Time: 10:30–11:30 (CEST) Vienna
Organized by UNODC Civil Society Unit
Room: TBC
Side event: Partnership for UNTOC implementation – two-year assessment of Stakeholder Engagement in the review process.
Date: Wednesday 19 October | Time: 14:00–14:45 (CEST) Vienna
Organized by UNODC Civil Society Unit with UNODC Conference Support Section (OCB), the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
Register before 16 October: https://forms.office.com/r/6kT7k6VBZ3
Side event: Voices of the Organized Crime Convention: discussing progress on the UNTOC implementation Review Mechanism.
Date: Thursday 20 October | Time: 14:00–14:45 (CEST) Vienna
Organized by UNODC Conference Support Section (OCB) with UNODC Civil Society Unit and the Government of Italy.
Join the event: bit.ly/ReviewMechanismEvent
The full list of side events is available here.
All plenary sessions will be webcast live from Monday, October 17 at the following link: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CTOC/CTOC-COP-session11.html.
NGO lounge:
The NGO Lounge (Room: M0E27, M-building) is available for in-person NGO participants. The lounge is a place for NGOs delegates to work and meet each other.
Documentation:
Conference documentation including the provisional agenda, draft resolutions and the conference programme (including side events) is available on the conference website here.
