The main purpose of these legislative guides is to assist member nations in ratifying or implementing the convention and its protocols. The guides have been drafted to accommodate different legal traditions and varying levels of institutional development and provide, where available, implementation options. The guides focus on convention and protocol provisions that will require legislative change and/or those that will require action prior to or at the time the convention and its protocols become applicable to the state party concerned. The guides outline the basic requirements of the convention and the protocols, along with the issues that each state party must address; and they provide a range of options and examples that national drafters may consider as they try to implement the convention and its protocols. The purpose of the Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime is to promote cooperation in preventing and fighting transnational organized crime, as it aims to expand the number of states that adopt and execute effective measures against transnational organized crime, including the establishment and strengthening of cross-border links between states. The supplementary protocols focus on specific activities of transnational organized criminal groups, namely, trafficking in persons, especially women and children; the smuggling of migrants by land, sea, and air; and the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components, and ammunition.