Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
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1971,3 the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances of 1988,4 the United Nations Convention against
Corruption 5 and the international conventions and protocols related to terrorism, and
urges States parties to those conventions and protocols to make efforts towards their
full implementation;
5.
Recalls article 32 of the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and General Assembly resolution 68/193, in which,
inter alia, the need for the establishment of a mechanism to review the
implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto by States parties was
reiterated, and underlines that the review of the implementation of the Convention is
an ongoing and gradual process and that it is necessary to explore all options
regarding the establishment of a mechanism to assist the Conference of the Parties
to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in the
review of the implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto, and
invites Member States to continue the dialogue in this regard;
6.
Notes the progress made during the third meeting of the open-ended
intergovernmental Expert Group on the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment
of Prisoners, held in Vienna from 25 to 28 March 2014,11 and requests Member
States to support the process of revision of the Standard Minimum Rules for the
Treatment of Prisoners 22 in line with General Assembly resolution 65/230 of
21 December 2010, and to strengthen all efforts to address the issue of prison
overcrowding;
7.
Notes with appreciation the work of the open-ended intergovernmental
expert group to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of cybercrime and
responses to it by Member States, the international community and the private
sector, including the exchange of information on national legislation, best practices,
technical assistance and international cooperation, with a view to examining options
to strengthen existing and to propose new national and international, legal or other
responses to cybercrime, and encourages the expert group to enhance its efforts to
complete its work and to present the outcome of the study to the Commission on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in due course;
Reaffirms the importance of the United Nations crime prevention and
8.
criminal justice programme in promoting effective action to strengthen international
cooperation in crime prevention and criminal justice, as well as of the work of the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the fulfilment of its mandate in crime
prevention and criminal justice, including providing to Member States, upon request
and as a matter of high priority, technical cooperation, advisory services and other
forms of assistance, and coordinating with and complementing the work of all
relevant and competent United Nations bodies and offices;
9.
Urges Member States to be represented at the Thirteenth United Nations
Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at the highest possible level,
and encourages States to continue their preparations for the Congress with a view to
making focused and productive contributions to the discussions and to promoting
the participation of United Nations organs and related agencies, other
intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, as well as
individual experts and consultants, in accordance with relevant resolutions and rules
of procedure;
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