Preparations for the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

A/RES/63/193View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2003–2010

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/64/180

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2010	A/RES/64/180	Preparations for the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,246	28%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/193	Preparations for the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,441	26%Compare
2005	A/RES/59/151	Preparations for the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,289	31%Compare
2004	A/RES/58/138	Preparations for the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,361	31%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/171	Preparations for the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	906	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2004–2010

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2010	A/65/92	Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/180
2009	A/64/123	Implementation of the mandates of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, with particular reference to the technical cooperation activities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/193
2005	A/60/172	Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/59/151
2004	A/59/123	Preparations for the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/58/138

What subjects does this mandate have?

17 subjects

Conferences Crime Prevention Criminal Justice Developing Countries Donor Countries Drug Traffic Education Intergovernmental Organizations Least Developed Countries Non-Governmental Organizations Participants Prisoner Treatment Prisons Professional Associations Rule of Law Specialized Agencies Urban Crime

What’s in this document?

35 operative paragraphs

Notes the progress made thus far in the preparations for the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice;

Decides to hold the Twelfth Congress in Salvador, Brazil, from 12 to 19 April 2010, with pre-Congress consultations to be held on 11 April 2010;

Also decides that the high-level segment of the Twelfth Congress shall be held during the last two days of the Congress in order to allow Heads of State or Government and Government ministers to focus on the main substantive agenda items of the Congress;

Further decides that the main theme of the Twelfth Congress shall be “Comprehensive strategies for global challenges: crime prevention and criminal justice systems and their development in a changing world”;

Approves the following provisional agenda for the Twelfth Congress, finalized by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its seventeenth session:

Opening of the Congress.

Organizational matters.

Children, youth and crime.

Provision of technical assistance to facilitate the ratification and implementation of the international instruments related to the prevention and suppression of terrorism.

Making the United Nations guidelines on crime prevention work.

Criminal justice responses to the smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons: links to transnational organized crime.

International cooperation to address money-laundering based on existing and relevant United Nations and other instruments.

Recent developments in the use of science and technology by offenders and by competent authorities in fighting crime, including the case of cybercrime.

Strengthening international cooperation in fighting crime-related problems: practical approaches.

Crime prevention and criminal justice responses to violence against migrants, migrant workers and their families.

Adoption of the report of the Congress;

Decides that the following issues shall be considered in workshops within the framework of the Twelfth Congress:

International criminal justice education for the rule of law;

Survey of United Nations and other best practices in the treatment of prisoners in the criminal justice system;

Practical approaches to preventing urban crime;

Links between drug trafficking and other forms of organized crime: international coordinated response;

Strategies and best practices against overcrowding in correctional facilities;

Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the institutes of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme network, to prepare a discussion guide for the regional preparatory meetings for the Twelfth Congress in a timely manner in order to enable the regional preparatory meetings to commence early in 2009, and invites Member States to be actively involved in that process;

Urges participants in the regional preparatory meetings to examine the substantive items on the agenda and the topics of the workshops of the Twelfth Congress and to make action-oriented recommendations to serve as a basis for the draft recommendations and conclusions for consideration by the Twelfth Congress and the Commission at its nineteenth session;

Emphasizes the importance of the workshops to be held within the framework of the Twelfth Congress, and invites Member States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and other relevant entities to provide financial, organizational and technical support to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the institutes of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme network for the preparations for the workshops, including the preparation and circulation of relevant background material;

Invites donor countries to cooperate with developing countries to ensure their full participation, in particular in the workshops;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a plan for the documentation for the Twelfth Congress, in consultation with the extended Bureau of the Commission;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to facilitate the organization of regional preparatory meetings for the Twelfth Congress and to make available the necessary resources for the participation of the least developed countries in those meetings and in the Congress itself, in accordance with past practice;

Encourages Governments to undertake preparations for the Twelfth Congress at an early stage by all appropriate means, including, where appropriate, the establishment of national preparatory committees, with a view to contributing to focused and productive discussion on the topics to be discussed in the workshops and to participating actively in the organization of and follow-up to the workshops;

Reiterates its invitation to Member States to be represented at the Twelfth Congress at the highest possible level, for example, by Heads of State or Government or Government ministers and attorneys general, to make statements on the theme and topics of the Congress and to participate in thematic interactive round tables;

Requests the Secretary-General to facilitate the organization of ancillary meetings of non-governmental and professional organizations participating in the Twelfth Congress, in accordance with past practice, as well as meetings of professional and geographical interest groups, and to take appropriate measures to encourage the participation of the academic and research community in the Congress;

Again encourages the relevant specialized agencies, United Nations programmes and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as other professional organizations, to cooperate with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the preparations for the Twelfth Congress;

Requests the Secretary-General to appoint a Secretary-General and an Executive Secretary of the Twelfth Congress, in accordance with past practice, to perform their functions under the rules of procedure for United Nations congresses on crime prevention and criminal justice;

Requests the Commission to accord sufficient time at its eighteenth session to reviewing the progress made in the preparations for the Twelfth Congress, to finalize in good time all the necessary organizational and substantive arrangements and to make its recommendations to the General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the proper follow-up to the present resolution and to report thereon to the General Assembly through the Commission at its eighteenth session.

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