stakeholder engagement Youth focal point
UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Stolen Dreams and the Youth For Freedom Collective were appointed by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to act as the ‘Youth Focal Point for the Review and Implementation of the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime”, as part of the Stakeholder Engagement Programme. Our mandate involves supporting, facilitating and improving the full, effective, meaningful and substantive participation and leadership of youth, in all our diversity, in the review and implementation of the Convention and its three subsidiary protocols.
About the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime:
The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, adopted by General Assembly resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, is the main international instrument in the fight against transnational organized crime.
The Convention is further supplemented by three Protocols, which target specific areas and manifestations of organized crime: the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children; the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air; and the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition.
The Convention represents a major step forward in the fight against transnational organized crime and signifies the recognition by Member States of the seriousness of the problems posed by it, as well as the need to foster and enhance close international cooperation in order to tackle those problems.
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