The European Union Centre of Excellence at Dalhousie University, in conjunction with the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, presents the following talk:
Title: How the UN Convention against Transnational Crime and the Protocols Thereto assist in combating illicit trafficking in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015
Time: 12.30 – 2.00pm
Location: Lord Dalhousie Room, First Floor of the Henry Hicks Building
Description: The talk will discuss the problem of transnational organized crime and illicit trafficking globally, with an emphasis on the region of the former USSR and Eastern Europe, and focus on how the Convention and the Protocols, ratified by UN Member States, have proven instrumental in dealing with these problems. In addition, the speaker will cite certain difficulties experienced in Eastern Europe and the former USSR in implementing the Convention and the Protocols and the relevant technical assistance provided to them by the United Nations.
Speaker: Sara Greenblatt, Retired Chief of the Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna