Topic for the Thematic Discussion of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at Its 17th Session, in 2008

E/DEC/2007/253View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2008.

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3 subjects

Crime Prevention Criminal Justice Gender-Based Violence

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At its 45th plenary meeting, on 26 July 2007, the Economic and Social Council:

(a) Took note of General Assembly resolution 61/143 of 19 December 2006, in particular paragraph 17, in which the Assembly invited a number of United Nations bodies, including the Council and its functional commissions, to discuss, by 2008, within their respective mandates, the question of violence against women in all its forms and manifestations, bearing in mind the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the in-depth study on all forms of violence against women,41 and to set priorities for addressing the issue in their future efforts and work programmes and to transmit the outcome of the discussions to the Secretary- General;

(b) Decided that the topic for the thematic discussion of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its seventeenth session in 2008, would be the “Aspects of violence against women that pertain directly to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice” and that those aspects would be elaborated upon during the intersessional period, and requested the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to prepare information to guide States members of the Commission in their deliberations.

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