Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
A/RES/69/197
Recalling further its resolution 68/156 of 18 December 2013, in which it
reaffirmed that no one shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment,
Recalling its resolution 67/184 of 20 December 2012 on the follow-up to the
Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and
preparations for the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice, to be held in Doha from 12 to 19 April 2015, dedicated to
“Integrating crime prevention and criminal justice into the wider United Nations
agenda to address social and economic challenges and to promote the rule of law at
the national and international levels, and public participation”, and noting the
progress made thus far in the preparation of that Congress,
Recalling also its resolution 66/177 of 19 December 2011 on strengthening
international cooperation in combating the harmful effects of illicit financial flows
resulting from criminal activities, in which it urged States parties to the United
Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances of 1988, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime and the United Nations Convention against Corruption to apply fully the
provisions of those Conventions, in particular measures to prevent and combat
money-laundering, including by criminalizing the laundering of proceeds of
transnational organized crime and corruption, as well as measures to enhance
national confiscation regimes and international cooperation, including in asset
recovery,
Taking into consideration all relevant Economic and Social Council
resolutions, in particular all those relating to the strengthening of international
cooperation, including resolution 2014/23 of 16 July 2014 on strengthening
international cooperation in addressing the smuggling of migrants, as well as the
technical assistance and advisory services of the United Nations crime prevention
and criminal justice programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in
the fields of crime prevention and criminal justice, promotion and reinforcement of
the rule of law and reform of criminal justice institutions, including with regard to
the implementation of technical assistance,
Concerned at the growing involvement of organized criminal groups in all
forms and aspects of trafficking in cultural property and related offences,
Recalling its resolutions 66/180 of 19 December 2011 on strengthening the
response to trafficking in cultural property, and 67/80 of 12 December 2012 on the
return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin, in which it urged
Member States and relevant institutions to reinforce and fully implement
mechanisms to strengthen international cooperation, including mutual legal
assistance, in order to combat all forms and aspects of trafficking in cultural
property and related offences, such as the theft, looting, damage, removal, pillage
and destruction of such property, and to facilitate the recovery and the return of
stolen and looted cultural property, and its resolution 68/186 of 18 December 2013
on strengthening crime prevention and criminal justice responses to protect cultural
property, especially with regard to its trafficking,
Underlining the importance of the further progress made in this field, and
welcoming the adoption by the General Assembly of the International Guidelines for
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Responses with Respect to Trafficking in
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