Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
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Cultural Property and Other Related Offences 12 through Economic and Social
Council resolution 2014/20 of 16 July 2014 as recommended by the Commission on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its twenty-third session, and the
establishment of a technical background document to assist in the implementation of
the Guidelines through the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice,
which will support the implementation of resolutions 67/80, 68/186 and 69/196 of
18 December 2014 and facilitate operational cooperation against all forms of
trafficking in cultural property, as well as the request to the United Nations Office
on Drugs and Crime to provide practical assistance in the implementation of the
Guidelines and to facilitate cooperation in this area,
Reaffirming the need for promoting increased ratification or accession to and
full and effective implementation of the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 13 recalling in this
regard all relevant resolutions, including resolution 64/293 of 30 July 2010 on the
United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons and
resolution 68/192 of 18 December 2013 on improving the coordination of efforts
against trafficking in persons, and welcoming the work of the United Nations
Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children,
Underlining that, although the crime of smuggling of migrants may share, in
some cases, some common features with the crime of trafficking in persons,
Member States need to recognize that they are distinct crimes and require separate
and complementary legal, operational and policy responses, and recalling further its
resolution 68/179 of 18 December 2013, in which it called upon all Member States
to protect and assist migrants, and Economic and Social Council resolution 2014/23,
recommended by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its
twenty-third session,
Recalling Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolutions
22/7 on strengthening international cooperation to combat cybercrime and 22/8 on
promoting technical assistance and capacity-building to strengthen national
measures and international cooperation against cybercrime, both of 26 April 2013, 14
Concerned at the growing trend of cybercrime and the misuse of information
and telecommunications technologies in multiple forms of crime,
Noting the establishment by the Secretary-General of the United Nations
system task force on transnational organized crime and drug trafficking for the
purpose of developing an effective and comprehensive approach to transnational
organized crime and drug trafficking within the United Nations system, and
reaffirming the crucial role of Member States in this regard, as reflected in the
Charter of the United Nations,
Expressing its grave concern about the negative effects of transnational
organized crime, including smuggling of and trafficking in persons, narcotic drugs
and small arms and light weapons, as well as illicit manufacturing of and trafficking
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 10 and corrigendum
(E/2013/30 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. D.
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