Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda

A/RES/55/59 United Nations Distr.: General 17 January 2001 General Assembly Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 105 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/593)] 55/59. Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century The General Assembly, Recalling that, in its resolution 54/125 of 17 December 1999, it requested the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders to submit, through the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the Economic and Social Council, its declaration to the Millennium Assembly for consideration and action and requested the Commission to give priority attention at its ninth session to the conclusions and recommendations of the Tenth Congress, with a view to recommending, through the Economic and Social Council, appropriate follow-up by the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session, Endorses the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century, adopted by the States Members of the United Nations and the other States participating in the high-level segment of the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, 1 as contained in the annex to the present resolution. 81st plenary meeting 4 December 2000 Annex Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century We the States Members of the United Nations, Concerned about the impact on our societies of the commission of serious crimes of a global nature, and convinced of the need for bilateral, regional and international cooperation in crime prevention and criminal justice, Concerned in particular about transnational organized crime and the relationships between its various forms, 1 See Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Vienna, 10–17 April 2000: report prepared by the Secretariat (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.00.IV.8). 00 56293