Consider the following statements:
1. The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) has a ‘Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air’.
2. The UNCAC is the ever-first legally binding global anti-corruption instrument.
3. A highlight of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) is the inclusion of a specific chapter aimed at returning assets to their rightful owners from whom they had been taken illicitly.
4. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is mandated by its member States to assist in the implementation of both UNCAC and UNTOC.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Explanation
Statement 1 is incorrect- Protocol against the
Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air,
comes under the aegis of United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime(UNTOC).
Statement 2 is correct- The United Nations
Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), which
entered into force in December 2005, is the everfirst
binding global anti-corruption instrument.
Statement 3 is incorrect- A highlight of the
United Nations Convention against Corruption
(UNCAC)is the inclusion of a specific chapter on
asset recovery, aimed at returning assets to
their rightful owners, including countries from
which they had been taken illicitly.
Statement 4 is correct- The United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is
mandated by its Member States to assist in the
implementation of both the Conventions
(UNCAC and UNTOC), which along with the UN
Drug Conventions of 1961, 1971 and 1988
underpin all the operational work of UNODC.