The United Nations Convention against Organized Crime is an innovative legal framework for the fight against transnational organized crime. Created in honour of the anti-mafia judge, Giovanni Falcone, the Convention incorporates the criminalization of several offences relating to organized crime (participation in an organized criminal group, corruption, money laundering, and obstruction of justice), as well as putting forward provisions that may be used to facilitate investigations and international cooperation. In the fight against transnational criminality, the Convention is supplemented by its Protocols against human trafficking, migrant smuggling, and firearms trafficking, as well as the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the three major international drug control treaties. The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention and Working Groups work to improve the capacity of States parties to combat organized crime and to promote and review the implementation of the Organized Crime Convention.
