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Source register

161 instruments across 55 registers.

Source register: the documents behind this reference

This publication issues no reports of its own. What it maintains is a jurisdiction dataset built from documents other institutions publish, and this page is the register of those documents. Each entry links outward to the issuing body, because the instrument itself is the citable thing and this site is only a description of it.

Treaty instruments and their status tables

The ratification dates on every jurisdiction record come from the United Nations Treaty Collection status tables — the depositary's own register of signatures, ratifications and accessions, rather than a report about them.

Instrument Adopted Chapter
1988 Convention United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988 VI-19
UNTOC United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 2000 XVIII-12
UNCAC United Nations Convention against Corruption 2003 XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition 2001 XVIII-12-c

Monitoring statements

Listing status comes from two statements issued on the same day by the Financial Action Task Force. They are separate documents with different consequences, and are read in full rather than summarised from their headings — the grey-list statement ends with a section naming jurisdictions that have been removed, so a heading-level reading inverts their status.

National law registers

161 national instruments are cited across the jurisdiction records, each confirmed against one of 55 official registers — government law portals, parliamentary repositories, gazettes, and the UNODC legal library, which reproduces national legislation directly. The specific document and its check date appear on the record that cites it; the registers themselves are listed here.

agc.gov.ms · argentina.gob.ar · asamblea.gob.sv · asambleanacional.gob.ve · bco.gov.bz · brr.gov.gh · bvi.gov.vg · cancilleria.gob.ar · cbos.gov.sd · digemid.minsa.gob.pe · digestolegislativo.gov.py · dominica.gov.dm · edaegypt.gov.eg · elibrary.osg.go.tz · eservices.gov.vg · finance.gov.gy · fmu.gov.pk · funcionpublica.gov.co · gov.ai · gov.za · jamaicatradeportal.gov.jm · justice.gov.za · laws.gov.ag · laws.moj.gov.jm · libraryir.parliament.go.ke · matsne.gov.ge · mia.go.ug · mia.gov.az · mid.gov.mg · ministeriopublico.gob.pa · minjustice.gov.cm · moha.gov.gy · natlex.ilo.org · new.kenyalaw.org · nmdk.gov.az · oas.org · ondcp.gov.ag · onlcdt.mjustice.gov.dz · ons.gov.gm · pakistancode.gov.pk · parliament.go.ke · parliament.gov.zm · poderjudicial.gob.ni · punjablaws.punjab.gov.pk · repository.mof.go.tz · repository.parliament.gh · rwandafda.gov.rw · sis.gov.eg · track.unodc.org · ufr.gov.mk · unodc.org · www.oas.org · www.unodc.org · www.wipo.int · www2.congreso.gob.pe

Programme documentation

Each programme dossier names the official source that documents it. None of these is published by this site, and none of the programmes is operated by it.

Tile cartogram with the jurisdictions carrying a confirmed national instrument picked out
Fig. — the jurisdictions whose instruments are cited in the register below.

Questions

Does this site publish its own reports?

No. It maintains a dataset and the reference pages built on it, and issues no reports, briefings or periodicals of its own. This page is a register of the documents it cites, which is a different thing and is labelled as one.

Why keep a page at this address?

Because the address is referenced from outside and an error page loses that reference while telling a reader nothing. What sits here now is the material a reader arriving from a citation would actually want: the primary documents behind every claim on the site, each linking to the body that issued it.

Why are the documents not hosted here?

Because a copy is a second version that can quietly fall out of step with the first. Depositary tables are revised as instruments are deposited, plenary statements are superseded three times a year, and a national register may amend a text without changing its title. Linking to the issuing body means a reader always reaches the current text, and it keeps the site out of the business of republishing other institutions' documents.

Can these documents be cited directly?

They should be. Every entry here links to the issuing institution rather than to a copy held on this site, so a reader can quote the depositary table, the plenary statement or the national register itself. Nothing on this site is a substitute for the instrument it describes.

How each layer is verified is set out under sources and methodology.