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UGLJESA UGI ZvEKIÓ practical between UNCAC and UNTOC but also other relevant international instruments such as drug conventions, arms and terrorism legal and policy instruments, including those from the human rights ambit. Therefore, greater integration and cross-fertilization in the various UN anticrime, drugs and terrorism instruments are also needed to help promote more effective prevention, prosecution and adjudication of these interrelated sinister phenomena. Such an integration is also needed in terms of the review of those instruments, including more cross-fertilization between the Conference of the State Parties of UNCAC (COSP) and UNTOC (COP). More integration between organized crime and corruption manifestations requires much more integration in and of the crime governance. UNTOC AND UNCAC: PREVENTION, CRIMINALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Within the international normative anti-crime and criminal justice realm, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC)’, ratified by 190 member states (February 2020) and the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)®, ratified by 187 (February 2020) member states, represent the normative, criminal-justice-based platforms for the prevention, criminalization and international cooperation against (transnational) organized crime and (transnational) corruption. The developmental platform, which covers prevention in the wider social and cultural space, is represented by 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in particular Goal 16: Peace, Security and Justice for All with the two most relevant targets, 16.4 and 16.5. These aim (respectively) to ‘significantly reduce all forms of organised crime’ (with a particular focus on illicit arms and financial flows) and ‘substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms’ by 2030. These goals area significant step towards approaching organized crime as a mainstream development concern and extending responsibility for its prevention across a broader range of development actors. ° https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/intro/UNTOC.html. ° https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CAC/. + 180 +
