MINUTES OF NIOC’S 40th ADVISORY BOARD MEETING

By CGR On Feb 28, 2023

The 40th Meeting of NIOC Advisory Board was held online on Tuesday 28 February 2023. The following AB Members participated: Samina Ahmed, Manzoor Ahmed, Zubair Habib and Jawaid Akhtar. Tariq Parvez and Zahid Hussain could not participate. NIOC Directorate was represented by the following: Tariq Khosa, Sarmad Saeed, Saroop Ijaz, Ammar Jaffri, Azam Khan, Nawaz Nadeem and Hassan Sardar.

The following matters came under discussion:

1) Under the UNTOC Review Process, CGR has constituted three Working Groups on UNTOC Legal Matters, Human Rights and Transnational Organized Crime.

2) A Focus Group Discussion of WG of Legal Experts on UNTOC will be held on 8 March 2023.

3) A case study on Smuggling of Migrants on a recent boat tragedy near Italian coast will be carried out in collaboration with the FIA.

4) An NGO on SDGs, led by Ammar Jaffri, will apply for membership of Vienna-based Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

5) CGR will release the UNTOC Implementation Review Report on behalf of the civil society by mid-March.

6) CGR-NIOC Annual Report 2022 will also be released during March 2023.