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Encourages the regional commissions, the specialized agencies, United
Nations institutes active in the areas of human rights and crime prevention and
criminal justice, and other relevant parts of the United Nations system, as well as
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, including national
professional associations concerned with promoting United Nations standards in this
field, and other segments of civil society, including the media, to continue to
develop their activities in promoting human rights in the administration of justice;
Takes note with interest of the debates held in the Security Council on the
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agenda item entitled “Justice and the Rule of Law: the United Nations role”;
9.
Invites the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice, as well as the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights and the Crime Programme of the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime, to closely coordinate their activities relating to the
administration of justice;
10. Calls upon mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights and its
subsidiary bodies, including special rapporteurs, special representatives and working
groups, to continue to give special attention to questions relating to the effective
promotion and protection of human rights in the administration of justice, including
juvenile justice, and to provide, where appropriate, specific recommendations in this
regard, including proposals for advisory services and technical assistance measures;
11. Calls upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
reinforce, within his mandate, his activities relating to national capacity-building in
the field of the administration of justice, in particular in post-conflict situations;
12. Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to continue organizing
training courses and other relevant activities aimed at enhancing the promotion and
protection of human rights in the field of the administration of justice, and
welcomes the publication of the Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors
and Lawyers within the framework of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights
Education, 1995–2004;
13. Welcomes the increased attention paid to the issue of juvenile justice by
the High Commissioner and the United Nations Children’s Fund, in particular
through technical assistance activities, and, taking into account the fact that
international cooperation to promote juvenile justice reform has become a priority
within the United Nations system, encourages the further activities of the High
Commissioner and the United Nations Children’s Fund, within their mandates, in
this regard;
14. Calls upon the coordination panel on technical advice and assistance in
juvenile justice to further increase cooperation among the partners involved, to
share information and to pool their capacities and interests in order to increase the
effectiveness of programme implementation;
15. Invites Governments, relevant international and regional bodies, national
human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations to devote increased
attention to the issue of women in prison, including the children of women in prison,
with a view to identifying the key problems and ways in which they can be
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