Updated 13 August 2024 –
The first resumed 15th session of the UNCAC Implementation Review Group is taking place at the United Nations in Vienna Vienna, 28-30 August and on 2 September 2024.
From September 3-6, the UNCAC CoSP Working Group on Prevention is meeting.
- You can find here an informal agenda of the IRG and the Working Group on Prevention meetings here – but those meetings are not open to civil society (unless you are able to join a government delegation).
Annual UNCAC NGO briefing: Tue, 2 Sept, 10:00
The UNCAC Secretariat is holding the annual UNCAC NGO briefing on Tuesday, 2 September, from 10:00 to 11:30 at the UN in Vienna, Room M3. The event can also be viewed online.
Requirements to attend: Your organization has to have ECOSOC consultative status or have been accepted as an observer to the UNCAC CoSP10 in Atlanta.
How to register (by 19 August 2024):
An official letter, indicating the representatives of your Organization’s delegation who wish to participate in the briefing, should include the following information:
(a) Name(s);
(b) Title(s);
(c) Contact details including individual email addresses, which will be used to grant and verify access to the briefing;
(d) A clear indication of whether the participant(s) will attend in person or will observe the briefing online.
The official letter should be sent no later than 19 August 2024 (no additional registrations will be accepted after that date) to the secretariat of the Conference of the Parties, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, P.O. Box 500, 1400 Vienna, Austria, or a scanned copy to the email address email hidden; JavaScript is required, with the following subject line: NGO briefing– [name of the organization]. Please note that only scanned copies of official letters will be accepted by email.
Participants are advised to regularly consult the website of the first resumed fifteenth session of the Implementation Review Group for updated information regarding the registration process.
Written Submissions to the IRG
Organizations that are able to participate in the annual NGO briefing can make written submissions to the IRG which will be published in the IRG webpage.
Rules applying to those submissions:
– The submissions must uphold UN standards and avoid abusive language. In practice, we have come to understand that UNODC means that country names should not be used in a critical context, but highlighting good practice examples is okay. However, there is no official guidance on this aspect available, so the line is a bit unclear
– Length: 1,500 words (non-ECOSOC organizations) or 2,000 words (ECOSOC organizations)
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You can find examples of the UNCAC Coalition’s written submissions to the 2023 IRG session here.
Feel free to also copy the UNCAC Coalition on submissions to UNODC so we become aware of your submissions.
Civil Society Events during IRG week 2024
The UNCAC Coalition and some of its member organizations together with States Parties are organizing several discussion events during the IRG and Working Group on Prevention meetings.
More details coming soon