U.S. Rejects SDG Language as U.N. Crime Workshop Seeks Data Priorities
United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice • United NationsSeptember 29, 2026
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Governments hold more crime data than ever, but it is scattered, incompatible and often unused. At the 15th U.N. Crime Congress on Sept. 29, 2026, the United States argued the real problem is a lack of priorities. Committee I's Workshop 3 took no votes, but a U.S. delegate's objections to Sustainable Development Goals references and "illicit financial flows" terminology now head into a Chair's report scheduled for plenary adoption Oct. 1.
- U.S. rejects SDG references and calls the Congress declaration unprioritized.
- Korea integrates four agencies' crime statistics into 8 databases and more than 1,500 tables, then opens the data.
- Interpol reports 168 million records and 9.2 billion searches in 2025, while Egypt's financial intelligence unit pushes faster informal channels for tracing assets.
- Finland's foresight model looks five years ahead instead of relying on past crime data.
- UNICRI and a co-moderator seek trust-first rules for surveillance and satellite evidence.
Why it matters: The Chair's summary, conclusions and recommendations from this workshop will enter the Congress's official outcome. A major member state has now asked that the report reflect its objections, which sets up a clash with how U.N. agencies frame their data work.
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