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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
55. Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts in combating
cybercrime and all forms of criminal misuse of information and communications
technologies and to enhance international cooperation involving electronic evidence
in this regard;
56. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to
assist Member States, upon request, in combating the illicit manufacturing of and
trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, and to support
them in their efforts to address the links with other forms of transnational organized
crime, through, inter alia, legislative assistance, technical support, improved data
collection and analysis and strengthened national statistical systems, and in this
respect invites Member States to provide the Office with relevant information and
suitably disaggregated data through the regular data collection instrument on firearms
trafficking;
57. Urges Member States to exchange good practices and experiences of
practitioners who are involved in combating illicit trafficking in firearms and to
consider the use of available tools, including marking and record -keeping
technologies, to facilitate the tracing of firearms and, whe re possible, their parts and
components and ammunition, in order to enhance criminal investigations into illicit
trafficking in firearms;
58. Urges States parties to the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of
and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition that import
and export parts and components of firearms to reinforce their control measures in
line with the Protocol and other relevant international legal instruments to which they
are party, with a view to preventing and reducing the risks of their diversion, illicit
manufacturing and trafficking;
59. Calls upon Member States to intensify all efforts to address the world drug
problem, based upon the principle of common and shared responsibility and through
a comprehensive and balanced approach, including through more effective bilateral,
regional and international cooperation among judicial and law enforcement
authorities, to counter the involvement of organized criminal groups in illicit drug
production and trafficking and related criminal activities and to take steps to reduce
the violence that accompanies drug trafficking;
60. Recommends that Member States, as appropriate to their national contexts,
adopt a comprehensive and integrated approach to crime prevention an d 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 preventi on by
using multidisciplinary and participatory approaches, in close cooperation with all
stakeholders, including civil society, and requests the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime to continue to provide technical assistance, upon request, to Member States
for this purpose;
61. Reiterates its invitation to Member States to gradually adopt the
International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes and to strengthen
national statistical systems of criminal justice, requests the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime, within its existing mandate, to continue to strengthen the regular
collection, analysis and dissemination of accurate, reliable, timely and comparable
data and information, including, as appropriate, data disaggregated by sex, ag e and
other relevant criteria, and strongly encourages Member States to share such data and
information with the Office;
62. Takes note of the global studies on the smuggling of migrants, trafficking
in persons and intentional homicide, including on the gender-related killing of women
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