Preparations for the 10th United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders

A/RES/53/110View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 101 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 1999.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1998–1999

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1999	A/RES/53/110	Preparations for the 10th United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders	963	28%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/91	Preparations for the 10th United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders	1,091	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Conference and Meeting Services Conferences Corruption Costs Crime Prevention Criminal Justice Cybercrime Declarations Documents Limitation Offenders Participants Public Information Recommendations

What’s in this document?

32 operative paragraphs

Accepts with gratitude the invitation of the Government of Austria to host the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders at Vienna;

Decides to hold the Tenth Congress from 10 to 17 April 2000, with pre-congress consultations to be held on 9 April 2000;

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

Opening of the Congress.

Organizational matters.

Promoting the rule of law and strengthening the criminal justice system.

International cooperation in combating transnational crime: new challenges in the twenty-first century.

Effective crime prevention: keeping pace with new developments.

Offenders and victims: accountability and fairness in the justice process.

Adoption of the report of the Congress;

Notes that the Commission, at its seventh session, reviewed a draft discussion guide for the regional preparatory meetings for the Tenth Congress;³

³E/CN.15/1998/2/Add.1/Rev.1.

Endorses the programme of work for the Tenth Congress, including the holding of four practical-oriented technical workshops on the following subjects:

Combating corruption;

Crimes related to the computer network;

Community involvement in crime prevention;

Women in the criminal justice system;

Decides that the theme of the Tenth Congress should be “Crime and justice: meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century”;

Emphasizes the importance of the workshops, and invites Member States, non-governmental organizations and other relevant entities to support financially, organizationally and technically the preparations for the workshops, including the preparation and circulation of relevant background material;

Welcomes the offer of the institutes constituting the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme network to assist in the preparations for the workshops;

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

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

Decides, without prejudice to the current preparatory arrangements for the Tenth Congress, to streamline and minimize the costs of the preparation and servicing of the regional preparatory meetings by shortening their duration and limiting their documentation, by holding them in conjunction with other regional meetings or, if they are not absolutely necessary, by not convening them at all;

Also decides that the savings achieved should be used in servicing meetings and in supporting the priority programme activities of the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention of the Secretariat;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To take the necessary logistic steps, in collaboration with Member States and the institutes constituting the Programme network, to mobilize the participation of interested partners in the preparations for the four workshops;

To ensure, in collaboration with Member States, a wide and effective programme of public information related to the preparations for the Tenth Congress, to the Congress itself and to the implementation of its conclusions;

Requests the Commission, as the preparatory body for the United Nations congresses on the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders, to accord high priority at its eighth session to the finalization in good time of all the necessary organizational and substantive arrangements;

Also requests the Commission, at its eighth session, to prepare a draft declaration for submission to the Tenth Congress, taking into account the results of the regional preparatory meetings;

Urges the regional preparatory meetings to examine the substantive items of the agenda and workshop topics of the Tenth Congress and to make action-oriented recommendations to serve as a basis for the draft declaration to be considered by the Commission at its eighth session;

Requests the Tenth Congress to elaborate a single declaration containing its recommendations on the various substantive items of its agenda with a view to submitting that declaration to the Commission for consideration at its ninth session;

Decides that the Commission, at its tenth session, should undertake a review of the role, function, periodicity and duration of the United Nations congresses on the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders, including the issue of regional preparatory meetings;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure proper follow-up of the present resolution and to report thereon to the General Assembly through the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its eighth session.

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