UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime Gains 124 Signatures on Opening

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Thursday, February 1, 2001
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
17
Issue: 
2
59
Abstract: 
On December 15, 2000, 124 countries had signed the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime during a four-day high-level signing conference in Palermo, Italy. 80 additional countries are close to signing. At a ceremony on December 12, 2000, the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (TOCC) and its two protocols, one to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and the other against the smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air, was opened for signature…[more]