Recent USG Activities:

UN Crime Commission

•Multilateral Cooperation: CITES, ITTO, UNFF, FAO, UNCCPCJ

• Regional Cooperation: APEC EGILAT, CBFP, support for RAFT

• Bilateral Cooperation: MOUs with Indonesia and China

•Commitments in trade agreements

• Partnerships: Forest Legality Alliance

• Legislation: Amended Lacey Act

• Science, technology, and research

• Resolutions since 2001

increasingly recognize wildlife

and forest crime issues,

encourage Member State

action.

• 2014 Resolution:

“Strengthening a Targeted

Crime Prevention and Criminal

Justice Response to Combat

Illicit Trafficking in Forest

Products, Including Timber.”

• Norway + United States proposed

• Co-sponsors:

- Austria

- Canada

- Chile

- France

- Japan

- Indonesia

- Israel

- Peru

- Russia

- Turkey

• Encourages member states to

make illicit trafficking in forest

products a "serious crime"

pursuant to the UN Convention

against Transnational

Organized Crime (UNTOC),

thereby unlocking the

international cooperation tools

contained therein.

• Promotes the Wildlife and

Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit

• Encourages domestic law

enforcement

• Encourages regional and

international cooperation

What’s Next?

What’s Next?

• International cooperation – UNODC, ICCWC, Member States activities

• Forest Legality Alliance and other international engagement

• UNODC reports progress implementing the resolution at the 2016 Crime Commission

Ellen Shaw, U.S. Department of State, OES/ECW