The SHERLOC portal is an initiative launched by UNODC to facilitate the dissemination of information regarding the implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its three Protocols. The portal is currently host to six databases covering fifteen different crime types, for more information on the databases and how to contribute, please visit: sherloc.unodc.org .Trafficking in persons, Trafficking in cultural property, wildlife forest and fisheries crime, Falsified medical products, Trafficking in firearms and Terrorism. The SHERLOC portal and its databases can be used as additional tool for researching information and topics to be used in MUN simulations in a number of ways. In particular, the portal can be of great help when the topic is of legal nature and covering one of the following areas: Counterfeiting, Corruption, Participation in an organized criminal group, Drug offences, Money Laundering, Obstruction of Justice, Cybercrime, Piracy, and Smuggling of Migrants
Many of the mandates covered by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime fall under SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, but are relevant to other SDGs as well, including SDG 5, SDG 8 and SDG 10. When looking for material for your MUN research, you can search this database for legal frameworks, UN actions, and policy papers. As the screenshots below show, you can also search for treaties and legislation by country. If you are researching Oman or Argentina, you will be able to search the database by country-a very handy research tool!
- You can search through the Database of Legislation to look for the legal framework in the countries you are representing, to understand the latest legal status.
- You can look through the Strategies Database to look for policy implications, in particular whether any strategy or plan of action has been adopted by the country you are representing to tackle on of the above-mentioned areas of crime.
- You can also research for jurisprudence supporting the arguments you will be presenting to your committee– SHERLOC also collects in the Case Law Database , key jurisprudence and landmark cases prosecuted in different countries and illustrating how organized crime and other related crime types can be successfully investigated and tackled in regional and domestic Courts.
