Report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on Its 34th Session and Provisional Agenda for Its 35th Session

E/DEC/2025/321View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 20c Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2025.

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5 versions · 2015–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	E/DEC/2025/321	Report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on its 34th session and provisional agenda for its 35th session	508	74%Compare
2018	E/DEC/2018/244	Report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on its 27th session and provisional agenda for its 28th session	465	69%Compare
2017	E/DEC/2017/237	Report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on its 26th session and provisional agenda for its 27th session	489	68%Compare
2016	E/DEC/2016/243	Report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on its 25th session and provisional agenda for its 26th session	461	69%Compare
2015	E/DEC/2015/235	Report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on its 24th session and provisional agenda for its 25th session	525	–

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23 operative paragraphs

At its 39th plenary meeting, on 29 July 2025, the Economic and Social Council:

(a) Took note of the report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on its thirty-fourth session;50

(b) Reaffirmed Commission decision 21/1 of 27 April 2012;51

Election of officers.

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

General debate.

Strategic management, budgetary and administrative questions:

Work of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;

Directives on policy and budgetary issues for the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme;

Working methods of the Commission;

Staff composition of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other related matters.

Thematic discussion: consideration of the report of the Fifteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

Integration and coordination of efforts by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and by Member States in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice:

Ratification and implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto;

Ratification and implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption;

48 E/2025/32 (Part I).

49 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2024, Supplement No. 10A (E/2024/30/Add.1).

50 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2025, Supplement No. 10 (E/2025/30).

51 Ibid., 2012, Supplement No. 10 and corrigenda (E/2012/30, E/2012/30/Corr.1 and E/2012/30/Corr.2), chap. I, sect. D.

Ratification and implementation of the international instruments to prevent and combat terrorism;

Ratification and implementation of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes;

Other crime prevention and criminal justice matters;

Other activities in support of the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in particular activities of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme network,

non‑governmental organizations and other bodies.

Use and application of United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice.

World crime trends and emerging issues and responses in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice.

Follow-up to the Fifteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the Sixteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

Contributions by the Commission to the work of the Economic and Social Council, including follow-up to and review and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Provisional agenda of the thirty-sixth session of the Commission.

Other business.

Adoption of the report of the Commission on its thirty-fifth session.

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