[2] Botswana signed the Anti-Human Trafficking Act of 2014 to comply with UNTOC on the human smuggling protocol.

[4] In February 2018, Afghanistan introduced a new penal code which made the country's laws UNTOC-compliant for the first time.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) acts as custodian of the UNTOC and its protocols.

[8] As an example, the UNTOC requires a minimum sentence of four years imprisonment for transnational organised criminal offences.

The six UN member states that are not party to the convention are (* indicates that the state has signed but not ratified the convention): In June 2018, the Iranian Parliament approved the bill to join UNTOC, but 10 days later Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, called the bill "unacceptable" and blocked its progress.