Integrating sport into youth crime prevention
and criminal justice strategies
A/RES/74/170
to prevent recidivism by them, and, in this regard, to promote and facilitate effective
research, monitoring and evaluation of relevant initiatives, including gang -related
initiatives, to assess their impact;
10. Invites Member States to consider the development of clear policy
frameworks within which sports-based initiatives can operate to effect positive
change in the fields of crime prevention and criminal justice;
11. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to convene an
expert group meeting, in close coordination with Member States and in collaboration
with all relevant United Nations entities, in particular the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Children ’s Fund and the
Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, the institutes of the
United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme network and sports
organizations such as the International Olympic Committee and the Fédération
Internationale de Football Association, to examine effective ways and means of
integrating sport into youth crime prevention and criminal justice, building upon its
existing programmes and taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals and
other relevant United Nations action plans, standards and norms, with a view to
analysing and compiling a set of best practices that cater to various stakeholders and
enhance system-wide coordination, and to present a report to the Commission on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice for consideration at its twent y-ninth session,
as well as to the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice for its information, and in this connection welcomes the offer of the
Government of Thailand to act as host for that expert group meeting in 2019 ;
12. Invites the institutes of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme network to consider including in their work programmes the issue
of integrating sport into youth crime prevention and criminal justice, noting the efforts
of Member States to achieve the relevant Sustainable Development Goals;
13. Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime to provide information to the Secretary-General on the implementation of
the present resolution as a possible contribution to his report to the General Assembly
at its seventy-fifth session on the implementation of resolution 73/24 of 3 December
2018 on sport as an enabler of sustainable development;
14. Invites Member States and other donors to provide extrabudgetary
resources for these purposes in accordance with the rules and procedures of the United
Nations.
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