UNODC treaties

Treaties - United Nations Conventions and their related Protocols - underpin all the operational work of UNODC.

Crime-related treaties:

Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (including the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Air and Sea and the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition).

The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, concluded at the 10th session of the Ad Hoc Committee established by the General Assembly to deal with this problem, is a legally-binding instrument committing States which ratify it to taking a series of measures against transnational organized crime. These include the creation of domestic offenses to combat the problem, the adoption of new, sweeping frameworks for mutual legal assistance, extradition, law enforcement cooperation and technical assistance and training.

Convention against Corruption

In its resolution 55/61 of 4 December 2000, the General Assembly recognized that an effective international legal instrument against corruption, independent of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (resolution 55/25, annex I) was desirable. The text of the United Nations Convention against Corruption was negotiated during seven sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of a Convention against Corruption, held between 21 January 2002 and 1 October 2003. The Convention approved by the Ad Hoc Committee was adopted by the General Assembly by resolution 58/4 of 31 October 2003.

 

Drug-related treaties:

The three major international drug control treaties are mutually supportive and complementary. An important purpose of the first two treaties is to codify internationally applicable control measures in order to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes, and to prevent their diversion into illicit channels. They also include general provisions on illicit trafficking and drug abuse.

Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs - 1961 (amended by the Protocol of 25 March 1972)

Convention on Psychotropic Substances - 1971

United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 1988

Terrorism-related treaties:

International Conventions and Protocols

 

Special Events:

Special Treaty Event on 20 April 2009

On 20 April 2009 the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs jointly organized a Special Treaty Event for the promotion of Universal Counter-terrorism and Crimes Conventions and the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel. During the Event the States took the opportunity to deposit instruments of ratification and accession and lodge required notifications of designated authorities under certain treaties highlighted. The first such treaty event to take place in Vienna saw seven States participating with eleven treaty actions.