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Recent USG Activities:
UN Crime Commission
•Multilateral Cooperation: CITES, ITTO, UNFF, FAO, UNCCPCJ
• Regional Cooperation: APEC EGILAT, CBFP, support for RAFT
• Bilateral Cooperation: MOUs with Indonesia and China
•Commitments in trade agreements
• Partnerships: Forest Legality Alliance
• Legislation: Amended Lacey Act
• Science, technology, and research
• Resolutions since 2001
increasingly recognize wildlife
and forest crime issues,
encourage Member State
action.
• 2014 Resolution:
“Strengthening a Targeted
Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice Response to Combat
Illicit Trafficking in Forest
Products, Including Timber.”
• Norway + United States proposed
• Co-sponsors:
- Austria
- Canada
- Chile
- France
- Japan
- Indonesia
- Israel
- Peru
- Russia
- Turkey
• Encourages member states to
make illicit trafficking in forest
products a "serious crime"
pursuant to the UN Convention
against Transnational
Organized Crime (UNTOC),
thereby unlocking the
international cooperation tools
contained therein.
• Promotes the Wildlife and
Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit
• Encourages domestic law
enforcement
• Encourages regional and
international cooperation
What’s Next?
What’s Next?
• International cooperation – UNODC, ICCWC, Member States activities
• Forest Legality Alliance and other international engagement
• UNODC reports progress implementing the resolution at the 2016 Crime Commission
Ellen Shaw, U.S. Department of State, OES/ECW