Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice
programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
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successive biennial reviews, 8 and looking forward to the forthcoming review of the
Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in June 2014,
Reaffirming also its resolutions addressing various aspects of violence against
women and girls of all ages,
Recalling the resolutions of the Human Rights Commission and the Human
Rights Council addressing various aspects of violence against women and girls of
all ages,
Recalling also the agreed conclusions of the fifty-seventh session of the
Commission on the Status of Women, which addressed the elimination and
prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls, 9 and reiterating the
importance of crime prevention and criminal justice measures for the protection of
women and girls,
Noting the significance of the updated Model Strategies and Practical
Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Field of Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice 10 as a way to assist countries in strengthening their
national crime prevention and criminal justice capacities to respond to all forms of
violence against women and girls,
Reiterating its condemnation of all forms of violence against women and girls,
expressing deep concern about gender-related killing of women and girls, and
recognizing the key role of the criminal justice system in preventing and responding
to gender-related killing of women and girls, including by ending impunity for such
crimes,
Emphasizing the relevance of international instruments and United Nations
standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice related to the
treatment of prisoners, in particular women and juveniles,
Recalling the adoption of its resolution 65/229 of 21 December 2010 on the
United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial
Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), and in this regard
encouraging the efforts of Member States to implement the Bangkok Rules,
Recalling also the adoption of its resolution 67/184 of 20 December 2012 on
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, in which it decided, inter alia, that the main
theme of the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice would be “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”,
Recalling further 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
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See resolutions 62/272, 64/297 and 66/282.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 7 (E/2013/27), chap. I,
sect. A.
10
Resolution 65/228, annex.
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