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Crime

8 April 2010

SOC/CP/346

Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to Be Held in Salvador, Brazil, 12-19 April

Marking the fifty-fifth anniversary of such meetings, the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice will be held in Salvador, Brazil, from 12-19 April 2010 under the theme “Comprehensive strategies for global challenges: crime prevention and criminal justice systems and their development in a changing world”.

24 February 2010

SG/SM/12763-SC/9868-SOC/CP/345

States Have Shared Duty to Fight Transnational Threats to International Peace, Security, Secretary-General Says in Security Council Debate

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council debate on organized crime as a threat to international peace and security in New York, today, 24 February:

22 January 2009

SG/SM/12059-SOC/CP/344

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE EXAMINING COUNTER-TERRORISM POLICIES, URGES ‘FOCUS ON PEOPLE’, AS ISSUE IS ABOUT HUMAN SUFFERING, NOT STATISTICS

22 January 2009

	Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/12059 SOC/CP/344

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE EXAMINING COUNTER-TERRORISM POLICIES,

URGES ‘FOCUS ON PEOPLE’, AS ISSUE IS ABOUT HUMAN SUFFERING, NOT STATISTICS

7 December 2006

SOC/CP/343

UNITED NATIONS CRIME RESEARCH BODY BRINGS TOGETHER EXPERTS, COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES TO DISCUSS SECURITY PLANNING FOR MAJOR GLOBAL EVENTS

7 December 2006

	Press ReleaseSOC/CP/343

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

United Nations Crime Research Body Brings Together Experts, Country Representatives

To Discuss Security Planning for Major Global Events

15 December 2005

SOC/CP/342

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION

15/12/2005

	Press ReleaseSOC/CP/342

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION

ON ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION

6 September 2005

AFR/1247-SOC/CP/341

AFRICAN LEADERS URGED TO TACKLE CRIME, INSECURITY, CORRUPTION TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT

06/09/2005

	Press ReleaseAFR/1247 SOC/CP/341

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

AFRICAN LEADERS URGED TO TACKLE CRIME, INSECURITY,

CORRUPTION TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT

Action Programme to Be Endorsed at Abuja Meeting

(Reissued as received.)

6 July 2005

SOC/CP/340

UNITED NATIONS FIREARMS PROTOCOL ENTERS INTO FORCE

6/7/2005

Press Release
SOC/CP/340

UNITED NATIONS FIREARMS PROTOCOL ENTERS INTO FORCE

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 6 July (UN Information Service) -- On 3 July, 90 days after the date of deposit of its fortieth instrument of ratification, the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (the Firearms Protocol), entered into force.

7 June 2005

SG/SM/9915-SOC/CP/339

NO COUNTRY -- RICH OR POOR -- IMMUNE TO CORRUPTION, PUBLIC GOOD ALWAYS SUFFERS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BRASILIA FORUM

07/06/2005

Press Release
SG/SM/9915
SOC/CP/339

NO COUNTRY -- RICH OR POOR -- IMMUNE TO CORRUPTION, PUBLIC GOOD ALWAYS SUFFERS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BRASILIA FORUM

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the fourth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, delivered by Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in Brasilia, 7 June: