Preparations for the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

A/RES/58/138View 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 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2003–2010

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/64/180

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2010	A/RES/64/180	Preparations for the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,246	28%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/193	Preparations for the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,441	26%Compare
2005	A/RES/59/151	Preparations for the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,289	31%Compare
2004	A/RES/58/138	Preparations for the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	1,361	31%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/171	Preparations for the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice	906	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2004–2010

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2010	A/65/92	Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/180
2009	A/64/123	Implementation of the mandates of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, with particular reference to the technical cooperation activities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/193
2005	A/60/172	Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/59/151
2004	A/59/123	Preparations for the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/58/138

What’s in this document?

35 operative paragraphs

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

Decides to hold the Eleventh Congress from 18 to 25 April 2005, with pre-congress consultations to be held on 18 April 2005;

Also decides that the high-level segment of the Eleventh Congress shall be held during the last three days of the Congress in order to allow heads of State or Government or government ministers to focus on the main substantive agenda items of the Congress;

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

Opening of the Congress.

Organizational matters.

Effective measures to combat transnational organized crime.

International cooperation against terrorism and links between terrorism and other criminal activities in the context of the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Corruption: threats and trends in the twenty-first century.

Economic and financial crimes: challenges to sustainable development.

Making standards work: fifty years of standard-setting in crime prevention and criminal justice.

Adoption of the report of the Congress;

Decides that the following issues shall be considered by workshops within the framework of the Eleventh Congress:

Enhancing international law enforcement cooperation, including extradition measures;

Enhancing criminal justice reform, including restorative justice;

Strategies and best practices for crime prevention, in particular in relation to urban crime and youth at risk;

Measures to combat terrorism, with reference to the relevant international conventions and protocols;

Measures to combat economic crime, including money-laundering;

Measures to combat computer-related crime;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to prepare, in cooperation with the institutes of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme network, a discussion guide for the regional preparatory meetings and the workshops of the Eleventh Congress;

Urges the regional preparatory meetings to examine the substantive items on the agenda and the workshop topics of the Eleventh Congress and to make action-oriented recommendations to serve as a basis for the draft recommendations and conclusions for consideration by the Congress and the Commission at its fourteenth session;

Emphasizes the importance of the workshops, and invites Member States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and other relevant entities to provide financial, organizational and technical support to the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and to the institutes of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme network for the preparations for the workshops, including the preparation and circulation of relevant background material;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in the discussion guide requested in paragraph 6 above consideration of technical cooperation ideas, projects and documents related to enhancing bilateral and multilateral efforts in technical assistance activities in crime prevention and criminal justice;

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

Approves the plan for documentation for the Eleventh Congress, as proposed by the Secretary-General in his report on preparations for the Congress,⁴ taking into account the recommendations of the Commission related thereto;

⁴Ibid., para. 69.

Invites Governments and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to inform the Eleventh Congress about their activities with a view to the implementation of the plans of action for the implementation of the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century,1 as guidance for the formulation of legislation, policies and programmes in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice at the national and international levels;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to make available the necessary resources for the participation of the least developed countries in the regional preparatory meetings for the Eleventh Congress and at the Congress itself, in accordance with past practice;

Encourages Governments to undertake preparations for the Eleventh 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 of and follow-up to the workshops;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide resources, as required, in accordance with established United Nations budgetary practice and within the overall appropriations of the programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005, in order to ensure a wide and effective programme of public information relating to the preparations for the Eleventh Congress, to the Congress itself and to the follow-up to and implementation of its recommendations;

Reiterates its invitation to Member States to be represented at the Eleventh Congress at the highest possible level, for example, by heads of State or Government or government ministers and attorneys general, to make statements on the theme and topics of the Congress and to participate in thematic interactive round tables;

Requests the Secretary-General to facilitate the organization of ancillary meetings of non-governmental and professional organizations participating in the Eleventh 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;

Again encourages the relevant specialized agencies, United Nations programmes and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as other professional organizations, to cooperate with the Centre for International Crime Prevention in the preparations for the Eleventh Congress;

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

Requests the Commission to accord sufficient time at its thirteenth session to reviewing the progress made in the preparations for the Eleventh Congress, to finalize in good time all the necessary organizational and substantive arrangements and to make its recommendations through the Economic and Social Council to the General Assembly;

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

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