The Fourteenth Congress adopted the Kyoto Declaration, which highlights the importance of partnerships in preventing crime and upholding the rule of law.
Comprehensive strategies for crime prevention towards social and economic development
Integrated approaches to challenges facing the criminal justice system
Multidimensional approaches to promoting the rule of law including fostering a culture of lawfulness while respecting cultural identities
International cooperation and technical assistance to prevent and address all forms of crime including terrorism in all its forms and new and emerging forms of crime
[The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to build back better will be addressed throughout the Crime Congress]
Workshops
Evidence-based crime prevention: statistics, indicators and evaluation in support of successful practices
Reducing reoffending: identifying risks and developing solutions
Education and youth engagement as key to making societies resilient to crime
Current crime trends, recent developments and emerging solutions, in particular new technologies as means for and tools against crime
Ghada Waly, Executive Director of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Secretary-General of the Congress, Japanese Minister of Justice Yoko Kamikawa, President of the Congress, and other dignitaries during the opening of the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.