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Crime Prevention and Control

A/RES/32/60No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 77Crime prevention and control, published in 1978.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1973–1978
  • 1978A/RES/32/60Crime prevention and controlLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1974A/RES/3139(XXVIII)Crime prevention and controlCompare with previous version
  • 1973A/RES/3021(XXVII)Crime prevention and control

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics
ConferencesCrime PreventionElection of Members

What does this mandate say?

3 operative paragraphs
3
Endorses the recommendation of the Fifth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, 20 which requested the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control to review at its fifth session the provisional rules of procedure of the Congress with a view to bringing them into conformity with current practice in other United Nations bodies, conferences and congresses convened under the auspices of the United N ations, and requests the Committee to submit the revised draft rules of procedure to the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-sixth session;
4
Decides further that the members of the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control should be elected by the Economic and Social Council far a term of four years, with half the membership being elected every two years, on the basis of the principle of equitable geographical distribution, from among experts who possess the necessary qualifications and professional or scientific knowledge in the field and are nominated by Member States;
5
Invites the Economic and Social Council to request the Commission far Social Development to consider the question of the functions and long-term programme of work of the Committce on Crime Prevention and Control with a view to further improving United Nations activities in this field, and to submit its suggestions and proposals to the Council.

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