Follow-Up to the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and Preparations for the 13th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

A/RES/68/185View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 108 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

13 versions · 2008–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/225

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/225	Follow-up to the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,514	39%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/186	Follow-up to the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	2,032	51%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/223	Follow-up to the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	2,045	39%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/231	Follow-up to the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,092	24%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/171	Follow-up to the 13th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,643	28%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

12 reports · 2009–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/139	Follow-up to the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/225
2025	A/80/223	Follow-up to the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/186
2024	A/79/134	Follow-up to the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and Preparations for the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/223
2023	A/78/159	Follow-up to the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/231
2021	A/76/119	Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/171

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Crime Prevention Criminal Justice Trafficking in Persons

What’s in this document?

22 operative paragraphs

Reiterates its invitation to Governments to take into consideration the Salvador Declaration on Comprehensive Strategies for Global Challenges: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and Their Development in a Changing WorldError: Reference source not found and the recommendations adopted by the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice when formulating legislation and policy directives and to make all efforts, where appropriate, to implement the principles contained therein, taking into account the economic, social, legal and cultural specificities of their respective States;

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

Decides to hold the Thirteenth Congress in Doha, from 12 to 19 April 2015, with pre-Congress consultations to be held on 11 April 2015;

Also decides that the high-level segment of the Thirteenth Congress shall be held during the first two days of the Congress in order to allow Heads of State or Government and Government ministers to focus on the main theme of the Congress and to enhance the possibility of generating useful feedback;

Further decides that, in accordance with its resolution 56/119, the Thirteenth Congress shall adopt a single declaration, to be submitted to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice for its consideration, and that the declaration shall contain the major recommendations reflecting and emerging from the deliberations of the high-level segment, as well as the discussion of the agenda items and the workshops;

Takes note with appreciation of the draft discussion guide prepared by the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the institutes of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme network, for the regional preparatory meetings and for the Thirteenth Congress;

Requests the Secretary-General to finalize the discussion guide in a timely manner, taking into account the recommendations of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, as well as additional comments and feedback from Member States, in order to enable the regional preparatory meetings for the Thirteenth Congress to be held as early as possible in 2014;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to proceed with the organization of the four regional preparatory meetings for the Thirteenth 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, as well as making a special effort to organize the regional preparatory meeting for European and other States so as to benefit from their inputs;

Urges Governments to actively participate in the regional preparatory meetings, where appropriate, and invite their representatives to examine the substantive items on the agenda and the topics of the workshops of the Thirteenth Congress and to make action-oriented recommendations for consideration by the Congress;

Invites Governments to undertake preparations for the Thirteenth Congress at an early stage by all appropriate means, including, where appropriate, the establishment of national preparatory committees;

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

Also reiterates its invitation to Member States to play an active role in the Thirteenth Congress by sending legal and policy experts, including practitioners with special training and practical experience in crime prevention and criminal justice;

Requests the Secretary-General to encourage the participation of representatives from relevant entities of the United Nations system in the Thirteenth Congress, bearing in mind the main theme, agenda items and workshop topics of the Congress;

Invites donor countries to cooperate with developing countries to ensure their full participation in the workshops, and encourages States, the institutes of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme network, other entities concerned and the Secretary-General to work together in order to ensure that the workshops are well-focused and achieve practical results, leading to technical cooperation ideas, projects and documents for enhancing bilateral and multilateral technical assistance activities in crime prevention and criminal justice;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to facilitate the organization of ancillary meetings of non-governmental and professional organizations participating in the Thirteenth 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, and encourages Member States to actively participate in the above-mentioned meetings, as they provide an opportunity to develop and maintain a strong partnership with the private sector and civil society organizations;

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

Again encourages the relevant specialized agencies and programmes of the United Nations 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 Thirteenth Congress;

Requests the Secretary-General to appoint a Secretary-General and an Executive Secretary of the Thirteenth 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;

Also requests the Secretary-General to provide the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime with the necessary resources, from within the overall appropriations of the programme budget for the biennium 2014–2015, to support the preparations for and holding of the Thirteenth Congress;

Further requests the Secretary-General to ensure, in collaboration with Member States, a wide and effective programme of public information relating to the preparations for the Thirteenth Congress, to the Congress itself and to the follow-up to and implementation of its recommendations;

Requests the Commission to accord sufficient time at its twenty-third session to reviewing the progress made in the preparations for the Thirteenth Congress, to finalize in a timely manner all outstanding 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 proper follow-up to the present resolution and to report thereon to the General Assembly through the Commission at its twenty-third session.

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