Even among the elite institutions, only three were included in the top 500 higher education institutions in the world as ranked on objective criteria by a group of Chinese researchers.
To mention but a few, the following are some of the important international instruments that the international community have crafted: the Basel Declaration 1988; the UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988; FATF 40+9 Recommendations, 1990, with numerous revisions; UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000; UN Convention against Corruption; UN International Convention for the Suppressing of the Financing of Terrorism.