Terrorism Prevention Branch of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

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Terrorism Prevention Branch of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Abbreviation

UNODC/TPB

Summary

The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Terrorism Prevention Branch, one of the many U.N. entities engaging in counterterrorism efforts, assists member states with ratifying, incorporating, and implementing international counterterrorism law into their domestic legal systems. In 2002, the U.N. General Assembly expanded the Terrorism Prevention Branch’s mandate in Resolution 57/292 to include “the provision of technical assistance in the prevention of international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.” UNODC maintains that its wide-ranging experience in “crime prevention and criminal justice, rule of law, drug control, transnational organized crime, money-laundering [and] corruption” affords it “comparative advantages for offering [states] a comprehensive response to terrorism.” UNODC collaborates with civil society on many issues, including criminal justice, corruption, and terrorism.

Website

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/terrorism/

Entry last updated: February 2015.