Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
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The Convention against Transnational Organized Crime is a United Nations-sponsored multilateral treaty against transnational organized crime, adopted in 2000. It is also called the Palermo Convention, and its tree protocols (the Palermo Protocols) are:[1]
All four of these instruments contain elements of the current international law on human trafficking,arms trafficking and money laundering. The convention and the protocols fall under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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