Crime prevention and criminal justice responses to protect cultural property, especially with regard to its trafficking

Welcomes the report of the meeting of the expert group on protection against trafficking in cultural property, held in Vienna from 24 to 26 Nov. 2009; requests the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to provide appropriate follow-up to the recommendations of the expert group on protection against trafficking in cultural property; invites Member States to take appropriate measures to prevent cultural property from being trafficked; requests the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to join the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other relevant international organizations in promoting and organizing meetings, seminars and similar events to which the Office can contribute as regards the crime prevention and criminal justice aspects of protection against trafficking in cultural property; requests the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to further explore the development of specific guidelines for crime prevention with respect to trafficking in cultural property; requests the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to explore possibilities for the collection, analysis and dissemination of relevant data, specifically addressing the relevant aspects of trafficking in cultural property.

Adopted without vote, 45th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2010 (New York, 28 June-23 July 2010) - E/2010/INF/2/Add.1 - 14 August 2010 - p. 112-116.