Strengthening the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, Particularly Its Technical Cooperation Capacity

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 103 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1995–1998

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1998	A/RES/52/90	Strengthening the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, particularly its technical cooperation capacity	834	76%Compare
1997	A/RES/51/63	Strengthening the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, particularly its technical cooperation capacity	899	37%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/146	Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, particularly its technical cooperation capacity	1,647	46%Compare
1995	A/RES/49/158	Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, particularly its technical cooperation capacity	1,302	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Advisory Services Budget Contributions Crime Prevention Criminal Justice Declarations Organized Crime Peacekeeping Operations Programmes of Action Technical Cooperation Transnational Crime

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the progress made in the implementation of General Assembly resolution 51/63 of 12 December 1996;²

²A/52/295.

Reaffirms the importance of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme and the crucial role it has to play in promoting effective action to strengthen international cooperation in crime prevention and criminal justice, in responding to the needs of the international community in the face of both national and transnational criminality and in assisting Member States in achieving the goals of preventing crime within and among States and improving the response to crime;

Also reaffirms the priority of the Programme, in accordance with relevant resolutions, and requests the Secretary-General to further strengthen the Programme by providing it with the resources necessary for the full implementation of its mandate, including follow-up action to the Naples Political Declaration and Global Action Plan against Organized Transnational Crime, adopted by the World Ministerial Conference on Organized Transnational Crime, held at Naples, Italy, from 21 to 23 November 1994,³ and to the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held at Cairo from 29 April to 8 May 1995;⁴

³A/49/748, annex, chap.I, sect.A.

⁴See A/CONF.169/16.

Reaffirms the high priority attached to technical cooperation and advisory services in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice, and stresses the need to continue to improve the operational activities of the Programme, in particular in developing countries and countries in transition, in order to meet the needs of Member States, at their request, for support in crime prevention and criminal justice;

Calls upon States and United Nations funding agencies to make significant financial contributions for the operational activities of the Programme, and encourages all States to make voluntary contributions for that purpose to the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Trust Fund, also taking into account the activities required for the implementation of the Naples Political Declaration and Global Action Plan against Organized Transnational Crime;

Calls upon all relevant programmes, funds and organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and other international, regional and national funding agencies, to support technical operational activities in this field and to include such activities in their programmes, utilizing the expertise of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme in such activities and cooperating closely on relevant technical assistance projects and advisory missions;

Takes note with appreciation of the contributions of the Programme to United Nations peacekeeping and special missions, as well as its contributions to the follow-up to those missions, inter alia, through advisory services, and encourages the Secretary-General, as a way of strengthening the rule of law, to recommend the inclusion of the re-establishment and reform of criminal justice systems in peacekeeping operations;

Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary measures to assist the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, as the principal policy-making body in this field, in performing its activities, including cooperation and coordination with other relevant bodies, such as the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on the Status of Women;

Welcomes the efforts undertaken by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to improve the strategic management of the Programme and to exercise more vigorously its mandated function of resources mobilization, and calls upon the Commission to further strengthen its activities in that direction;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report on the implementation of the present resolution to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session.

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