A/RES/70/178
Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
applicable obligations under relevant international law, taking into account the
special needs of women, children, especially when unaccompanied, and persons
with disabilities and older persons, and in collaboration with international
organizations, civil society and the private sector, and in this regard calls upon the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue its technical assistance to
Member States in accordance with the above-mentioned Protocol;
29. Encourages Member States to ensure that, in investigating and
prosecuting the smuggling of migrants, the concurrent undertaking of financial
investigations is considered, with a view to tracing, freezing and confiscating
proceeds acquired through that crime, and to consider the smuggling of migrants to
be a predicate offence of money-laundering;
30. Emphasizes the importance of preventing and combating all forms of
trafficking in persons, and in this regard expresses its concern about the activities of
transnational and national organized criminal groups and others who profit from
such crimes, including for the purpose of organ removal, and calls upon M ember
States to strengthen national efforts to combat all forms of trafficking in persons and
to protect and assist the victims of trafficking in accordance with all relevant legal
obligations and in collaboration with international organizations, civil so ciety and
the private sector;
31. Reiterates its request to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to
enhance its technical assistance to Member States, upon request, to strengthen
international cooperation in preventing and combating terrorism, inc luding the
phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters and its financial sources, through the
facilitation of the ratification and implementation of the universal conventions and
protocols related to terrorism, in close consultation with the Security Council
Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counterterrorism (the Counter-Terrorism Committee) and its Executive Directorate, as well
as to continue to contribute to the work of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation
Task Force, and invites Member States to provide the Office with appropriate
resources for its mandate;
32. Urges the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to
provide, within its mandate, technical assistance to Member States, upon their
request, to combat money-laundering and the financing of terrorism through the
Global Programme against Money-Laundering, Proceeds of Crime and the
Financing of Terrorism, in accordance with United Nations -related instruments and
international standards, including, where applicable, standards and relevant
initiatives of regional, interregional and multilateral organizat ions and
intergovernmental bodies against money-laundering, inter alia and as appropriate,
the Financial Action Task Force, in accordance with national legislation;
33. Encourages Member States to enhance the effectiveness of countering
criminal threats to the tourism sector, including terrorist threats, through, when
appropriate, the activities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and
other relevant international organizations, in cooperation with the World Tourism
Organization and the private sector;
34. Affirms that attacks intentionally directed against buildings dedicated to
religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, or historic monuments, may
amount to war crimes, stresses the importance of holding accountable perpetrators
of attacks intentionally directed against the above-mentioned buildings, provided
they are not military objectives, and calls upon all States to take appropriate action
to this end within their jurisdiction in accordance with applicable international law;
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