Topic: 2025-Combating Transnational Organized Crime
Country: Ghana
Delegate Name: Rafay Dar
Topic: transnational crime
Country: ghana
Delegate name: Rafay Dar
Transnational crime is a huge issue facing today’s society that the United Nations office on drugs and crime is addressing, and the delegation of ghana would like to state that transnational crime is a huge issue within the country due to the overwhelming amounts of human trafficking, arms smuggling, and drug smuggling. Due to the fact that Ghana is not a fully developed country, there is not much infrastructure in place to combat these crimes, with about 80% of the nation’s murder cases in the last 24 years going unsolved.
The government of Ghana is strongly against organized crime as it is a huge issue within the country, however the delegation of Ghana believes that the current framework in this current time is not sufficient enough to prevent transnational crime within developing countries such as Ghana where these crimes run rampant. In October of 2024 during an important UNODC meeting in Vienna, various member states of the UN pledged to help the country of Ghana draft the framework for a plan in order to combat the problems in organized crime. In this speech of the president of Ghana, he pledges that the country of Ghana would “pledge the necessary and financial resources for its successful implementation.” However, this may be an issue as the country of Ghana has a GDP of around 76 billion dollars, which may not be enough for a developing country such as this.
The delegation of Ghana urges the United Nations to take into consideration other countries that are not significantly developed as they may not have the fiscal resources or manpower to implement these solutions, especially in these countries where transnational crime may be running rampant. In order to deal with this huge problem that the world is facing right now developing countries with lacking infrastructure must be taken into consideration when making provisions as they are the ones that need it most, yet there is simply not enough aid given to them in implementing the drafted crime reduction strategies.
Sources: https://ocindex.net/assets/downloads/2021/english/ocindex_profile_ghana_2021.pdf
https://www.myjoyonline.com/about-80-of-murder-cases-between-2000-and-2021-unresolved-criminologist/
https://www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/COP12/Statements/Ghana.pdf
