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High-Level Segment of Crime Congress Hears Call for ‘Spectacular Breakthroughs’ towards Concrete Action against Offenders

Delegates at a special, three-day segment of the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice urged members this afternoon to take concrete action in the next five years, building upon “spectacular breakthroughs” on controversial issues relating to the prosecution, sentencing and custody of offenders, and on a possible new treaty on emerging forms of transnational offences such as cybercrime.
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Delegates at United Nations Crime Congress Hear Calls for Overhaul of Criminal Justice Systems to Reduce Prison Overcrowding

SALVADOR, Brazil, 16 April -- An overhaul of criminal justice systems in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe was needed to reduce inhumane overcrowding in prisons ‑‑ a major cause of recidivism which did nothing to improve public safety, speakers said today as the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice continued in Salvador, Brazil.
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Special Rapporteur Paints Harrowing Picture of Prison Conditions as Experts Call for Measures to Ensure Respect for Human Rights

Decrying the “appalling” circumstances believed to affect roughly 10 million detainees worldwide, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture today described massive differences in the treatment of prisoners, and called, alongside other experts, for stiffer measures to improve prison conditions and ensure full respect for basic human rights standards, as the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice continued in Salvador, Brazil.
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Delegates Call for ‘Template’ to Improve Rule-Of-Law Education Worldwide as United Nations Crime Congress Enters Third Day

The United Nations should develop a template to better educate everyone from schoolchildren to judges worldwide about criminal justice concepts, standards and the rule of law in order to create a safer, more just world, delegates said as the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice continued in Salvador, Brazil, today.
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Delegates Consider Best Response to Cybercrime as Congress Committee Takes Up Dark Side of Advances in Information Technology

While advances in information technology held many benefits for society, its dark underside ‑‑ computer-based fraud and forgery, illegal interception of private communications, interference with data and misuse of electronic devices ‑‑ required States to develop an organized, international response, delegates said today at the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.