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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
particular child sexual abuse imagery, from the Internet, to enhance the security of
computer networks and protect the integrity of relevant infrastructure, and to
endeavour to provide long-term technical assistance and capacity-building to
strengthen the ability of national authorities to deal with cybercrime, including the
prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of such crime in all its forms;
42. Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts in combating
cybercrime and all forms of criminal abuse of information and telecommunications
technologies, and to enhance international cooperation in this regard;
43. 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 and improved data
collection and analysis;
44. 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;
45. Recommends 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 and data collection 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, and requests the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime to continue to provide technical assistance, upon request, to
Member States for this purpose;
46. Invites Member States to develop national plans for the gradual adoption
of 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
and comparable data and information, including, as appropriate, data disaggregated
by sex, age and other relevant criteria, and strongly encourages Member States to
share such data and information with the Office;
47. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to
develop, in close cooperation with Member States, technical and methodological
tools and trend analyses and studies to enhance knowledge of crime trends and
support Member States in designing appropriate responses in specific areas of
crime, in particular in their transnational dimension, taking into account the need to
make the best possible use of existing resources;
48. Encourages Member States to take relevant measures, as appropriate to
their national contexts, to ensure the diffusion, use and application of the United
Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, including the
consideration and, where they deem it necessary, dissemination of ex isting manuals
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