United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Eleventh session (Bangkok, Thailand, 18-25 April 2005)
Synergies and Responses: Strategic Alliances in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Bangkok Declaration as adopted by the Crime Congress (pdf) - also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
11th Congress documents.
Hosted by the Government of Thailand
Bangkok, 18-25 April 2005
The United Nations General Assembly, by its resolution 57/17 of 18 December 2002, accepted with gratitude the offer of the Government of Thailand to host the Eleventh Congress. The Assembly also decided that the main theme of the Eleventh Congress shall be � Synergies and responses: strategic alliances in crime prevention and criminal justice .
The Eleventh Congress will be convened at a momentous period in the history of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice programme. The international community has witnessed the entry into force of major international instruments, namely, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children; the Protocol against Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air supplementing the Convention (General Assembly resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000). While at present, the third supplementary Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition (General Assembly resolution 55/255 of 31 May 2001) is still awaiting the required number of ratifications , it is hoped that its entry into force would be imminent at the time of the Eleventh Congress. It is also hoped that the United Nations Convention against Corruption (General Assembly resolution 58/4 of 31 October 2003), which was signed by over 95 countries at the High Level Political Signing Conference held in Merida, Mexico, from 9 to 11 December 2003), would be approaching the required number of ratifications for its entry into force.
Final Report ( Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish)