Data Disclosure Framework

Data Disclosure Framework

Part of: Prelims and GS-II – health and GS-III – Linkage of organised crime with Terrorism 

Context The UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate have launched Data Disclosure Framework.

• It is a tool that outlines the practices developed for responding to data requests from foreign criminal justice authorities for counter-terrorism investigations.

About United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

• It was established in 1997 and was named as a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2002.
• It acts as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division of the United Nations Office at Vienna.