The International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 8, 2005.

December 2008 ECOWAS Abuja Declaration ("Political Declaration on the Prevention Of Drug Abuse, Illicit Drug Trafficking and Organized Crimes in West Africa") was adopted in December 2008.

The Organization of American States (OAS) produced these conclusions and recommendations regarding a "Hemispheric Plan of Action against Transnational Organized Crime" at their meeting on April 19, 2005 in Washington, DC.

Mafia states enjoy the unhealthy advantages of their hybrid status: they're as nimble as gangs and as well protected as governments, and thus more dangerous than either.

The OECD released the Progress Report "Towards Global Tax Co-operation: Progress in Identifying and Eliminating Harmful Tax Practices" in 2000.

The Protocol to the Organization of American States (OAS) Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters was adopted on June 11, 1993.

The OECD Model Agreement on Exchange of Information on Tax Matters was released by the OECD in April 2002.

The ECOWAS Transnational Action Plan on Organized Crime was released on July 2, 2010 at the ECOWAS session in Cape Verde.

Europol, the European Police Office, published the EU Organised Crime Threat Assessment: OCTA 2011 in April, 2011.

The Report of the World Ministerial Conference on Organized Transnational Crime was presented to the UN General Assembly on December 2, 1994.

The Experts Group on Transnational Organized Crime (Lyon Group) released these 40 Recommendations on which were approved at the G8 summit in Lyon in 1996.

The Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime was adopted in Strasbourg on November 8, 1990.

The Organization of American States' Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters was adopted on May 23, 1992 and entered into force on April 14, 1996.

The 24^th Outcome Document of the 1998 G8 Summit, regarding drugs and international crime, was released at the Birmingham G8 Summit on May 16, 1998.

The Naples Political Declaration and Global Action Plan against Organized Transnational Crime was adopted at the UN General Assembly's 94^th plenary meeting on December 23, 1994.

The UN Firearms Protocol was adopted in May 2001 and entered into force on July 3, 2005.

President Obama signed executive order 13581 blocking the property of certain transnational criminal organizations on July 25, 2011.

For all its goodwill, Invisible Children's "Kony 2012" film is dangerous propaganda, pure and simple, writes David Rieff at Foreign Policy. It's not a call to make a notorious celebrity out of Joseph Kony, he writes--it's a call to war.

This report of the United Nations Assessment Mission on Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea was released on January 18, 2012. The document was mandated by the UN Secretary-General, to report the "mission to the Gulf of Guinea to assess the scope of the threat of piracy in the region, and take stock of national and regional capacities to ensure maritime safety and security in the region and make recommendations for a possible United Nations response".

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