A/RES/76/184
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 108
Crime prevention and criminal justice
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/463, para. 26)]
76/184.
Strengthening criminal justice systems during and after the
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations, applicable international law and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, 1 and reaffirming also its commitment to fully promoting and protecting all
human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as to upholding the principle of
human dignity, in the impartial administration of justice and throughout all its efforts
in preventing and combating crime,
Reaffirming also the responsibility of all States to uphold the Charter in its
entirety and to fully respect the principles of sovereign equality, the territorial
integrity of States and non-intervention in the domestic affairs of other States
throughout all their efforts in preventing and combating crime,
Recalling the relevant United Nations standards and norms in the area of crime
prevention and criminal justice, as well as General Assembly resolution 75/196 of
16 December 2020 on strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and
criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity, in which
the Assembly recommended that Member States, as appropriate to their national
contexts, adopt a comprehensive and integrated approach to crime prevention and
criminal justice reform, based on baseline assessments, regular data collection and
analysis, and focusing on all sectors of the justice system, and develop crime
prevention policies, strategies and programmes, including ones that focus on early
prevention by using multidisciplinary and participatory approaches, in close
cooperation with all stakeholders, including civil society,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
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