Crime prevention and criminal justice measures to eliminate violence against women

Urges Member States to review and evaluate their legislation and legal principles, procedures, policies and practices relating to criminal matters, in a manner consistent with their legal systems, to determine if they have a negative impact on women, and if they have such an impact, to modify them in order to ensure that women are treated fairly by the criminal justice system; also urges Member States to undertake strategies, develop policies and disseminate materials to promote women's safety in the home and in society at large; further urges Member States to promote an active and visible policy of integrating a gender perspective into the development and implementation of all policies and programmes in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice; calls upon the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, through the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the Secretariat and the institutes comprising the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme network, to cooperate with all relevant organs, bodies and other entities of the UN system and to coordinate their activities on issues relating to violence against women and to the removal of gender bias in the administration of criminal justice; calls upon the institutes comprising the Programme network to continue training in the field of violence against women and to consolidate and disseminate information on successful intervention models and preventive programmes at the national level; requests the Commission to ensure the Strategies for Confronting Domestic Violence: a Resource Manual is published in all official languages of UN; adoptes the Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Field of Crime Prevetion and Criminal Justice as a model for guidelines to be used by Governments in their efforts to address the various manifestations of violence against women.

Adopted without vote, 70th meeting

Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (1997)

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Adopted at the 70th plenary meeting, 12 Dec. 1997.