Drug Trafficking

Drug Trafficking and the Financing of Terrorism: United Nations

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UN Instruments

• UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES. Adopted in Vienna, 19 December 1988.
• UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME. Adopted by the General Assembly on 15 November 2000.
• POLITICAL DECLARATION AND ACTION PLAN AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING, adopted at the Twentieth Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly devoted to “countering the world drug problem together”, New York, 10 June 1998.
• NAPLES POLITICAL DECLARATION AND GLOBAL ACTION PLAN AGAINST ORGANIZED TRANSNATIONAL CRIME, adopted at the World Ministerial Conference on Organized Transnational Crime, held at Naples from 21 to 23 November 1994 (UN General Assembly Resolution GA/49/159).
• Political Declaration adopted at the Seventeenth General Assembly Special Session on
  drugs, 20-23 February 1990 stressing the danger presented by the large financial profits which the transnational criminal organizations derived from illicit drug trafficking and related criminal activities, and called for prevention of the use of the banking system and other financial institutions for the laundering of proceeds from such activities by making them criminal offences;
• Global Programme of Action adopted at the Seventeenth General Assembly Special Session
  on drugs, 20-23 February 1990, calling for a series of measures against the effects of money
  derived from, used in, or intended for use in, illicit drug trafficking, illegal financial flows and
  illegal use of the banking system : United Nations facility to strengthen the gathering, collation and exchange of information on the financial flows from drug-related funds; promotion with Interpol and WCO of bilateral or regional exchanges of information between governmental regulatory or investigative agencies, concerning the financial flows of illicit drug proceeds; development of a repository of laws and regulations on money laundering, currency reporting, bank secrecy and forfeiture of property, as well as procedures and practices designed to prevent money laundering; possibility of using forfeited property and proceeds or their equivalent value for activities to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking, including for United Nations drug related activities, etc.
• General Assembly Resolution 45/123 of 14 December 1990 and Resolution 47/87 of 16
  December 1992, inviting Member States to “make available to the Secretary General, on request, the provisions of their legislation relating to money laundering, the tracing, monitoring and forfeiture of the proceeds of crime and the monitoring of large-scale transactions and other measures so that they may be made available to Member States desiring to enact or further develop legislation in these fields”.
• ECOSOC Resolution 1993/30 of 27 July 1993 requesting the then Crime Prevention and
  Criminal Justice Branch, inter alia, to consider, in cooperation with other UN bodies concerned and other relevant entities, such as FATF, the possibility of assisting Governments, at their request, in developing guidelines for the detection, investigation and prosecution of the laundering of the proceeds of crime, in providing information to assist financial institutions in detecting, monitoring and controlling suspicious transactions, and in preventing the infiltration of the legitimate economy by the proceeds of crime. This resolution requested also to provide appropriate training material and technical assistance to Member States upon request, in drafting, revising and implementing relevant legislation, organizing special investigation teams, and training law enforcement, investigative, prosecutorial and judicial personnel.
• Resolution 37/5 of the UN Commission for Narcotic Drugs stressing the role of UNDCP in the field of money laundering and control of proceeds from illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances;
• Resolution 38/6 of the UN Commission for Narcotic Drugs calling upon UNDCP to play the
  role of clearing house for the delivery of training, advice and assistance to Member States in the field of financial investigations.

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• Social Problem
• Crime
• Delinquency
• Juvenile Delinquency
• Delinquent
• Social Issues
• Crime Prevention

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