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UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION (CICP)

Since the early days of the United Nations, the issues of crime prevention and criminal justice have been of great concern to the Organization, and have resulted in the creation of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which is the principal policy-making and coordinating body of the United Nations in crime prevention and criminal justice, including juvenile justice. The Commission is serviced by the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention, the former Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division, which also provides legal advice and assists Member States in programmes to prevent juvenile delinquency and in the reform of juvenile justice systems. The Centre provides technical assistance to Member States to implement fully the rights of children and youth in conflict with the law, as guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international juvenile justice instruments, namely the UN Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (The Riyadh Guidelines), the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The Beijing Rules) and the UN Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty.

Contact:

Ms. Renate Winter
Focal Point on
Juvenile Justice
Centre for International
Crime Prevention
United Nations
Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention
Room E1238
Vienna International
Centre
P.O. Box 500
A-1400 Vienna,
Austria

Tel.: (43-1)21345-5691; Fax: (43-1) 21345-5898

N.B.: Change in late 1998 to:
Tel.: (43-1)26060-5691; Fax: (43-1) 26060-5898

E-mail: rwinter@unov.un.or.at