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.

The Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice opened this morning in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, with a fervent call by United Nations and Government officials for stronger global cooperation among all stakeholders, as well as stronger legal tools to stamp out organized crime.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, delivered by John Sandage, Officer-in-Charge, Division for Treaty Affairs, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in Salvador, Brazil, 12 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”.

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

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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

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United Nations Crime Research Body Brings Together Experts, Country Representatives

 

To Discuss Security Planning for Major Global Events

 

15/12/2005

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UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION

ON ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION

06/09/2005

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AFRICAN LEADERS URGED TO TACKLE CRIME, INSECURITY,

CORRUPTION TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT

Action Programme to Be Endorsed at Abuja Meeting

(Reissued as received.)

6/7/2005

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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.