A/RES/67/188*
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 March 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 103
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/458)]
67/188. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind the long-standing concern of the United Nations for the
humanization of criminal justice and the protection of human rights,
Reaffirming the importance of the United Nations standards and norms in crime
prevention and criminal justice, and especially of promoting their implementation,
Emphasizing that in the Salvador Declaration on Comprehensive Strategies for
Global Challenges: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and Their
Development in a Changing World, 1 Member States recognized that an effective,
fair and humane criminal justice system was based on the commitment to uphold the
protection of human rights in the administration of justice and the prevention and
control of crime and acknowledged the value and impact of the United Nations
standards and norms in designing and implementing national crime prevention and
criminal justice policies, laws, procedures and programmes,
Recalling its resolution 65/230 of 21 December 2010, entitled “Twelfth United
Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice”, in which it requested
the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to establish an open-ended
intergovernmental expert group to exchange information on best practices, as well as
national legislation and existing international law, and on the revision of existing
United Nations standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners so that they
reflected recent advances in correctional science and best practices, with a view to
making recommendations to the Commission on possible next steps, and requested the
expert group to report to the Commission on progress in its work,
Aware that the penitentiary system is one of the key components of the
criminal justice system and that the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of
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* Reissued for technical reasons on 15 July 2013.
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Resolution 65/230, annex.
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