United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/65/229
Distr.: General
16 March 2011
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 105
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/457)]
65/229. United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women
Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women
Offenders (the Bangkok Rules)
The General Assembly,
Recalling the United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and
criminal justice primarily related to the treatment of prisoners, in particular the
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, 1 the procedures for the
effective implementation of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of
Prisoners, 2 the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of
Detention or Imprisonment 3 and the Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners, 4
Recalling also the United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention
and criminal justice primarily related to alternatives to imprisonment, in particular
the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (the Tokyo
Rules) 5 and the basic principles on the use of restorative justice programmes in
criminal matters, 6
Recalling further its resolution 58/183 of 22 December 2003, in which it
invited Governments, relevant international and regional bodies, national human
rights institutions and non-governmental organizations to devote increased attention
to the issue of women in prison, including the children of women in prison, with a
view to identifying the key problems and the ways in which they can be addressed,
Considering the alternatives to imprisonment as provided for in the Tokyo
Rules, and taking into consideration the gender specificities of, and the consequent
need to give priority to applying non-custodial measures to, women who have come
into contact with the criminal justice system,
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1
Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, Volume I (First Part), Universal Instruments
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.XIV.4 (Vol. I, Part 1)), sect. J, No. 34.
2
Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/47, annex.
3
Resolution 43/173, annex.
4
Resolution 45/111, annex.
5
Resolution 45/110, annex.
6
Economic and Social Council resolution 2002/12, annex.
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