Abstract:
In its resolution 2006/29 of 27 July 2006, the Economic and Social Council expressed
concern at the high levels of violence against women and girls in many societies and
drew attention to the need for ensuring effective and coordinated responses by the
criminal justice system. The ECOSOC invited the Institutes comprising the United
Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network (PNI) “to consider
providing assistance, upon request, to Member States in the area of crime prevention
and criminal justice responses to violence against women and girls, in cooperation with
other relevant entities of the United Nations system, and to integrate the elimination of
violence against women and girls into their training and technical assistance efforts,
including their crime prevention activities”.
In this framework and on the occasion of the Seventeenth Session of the United Nations
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the PNI has organized the
workshop entitled “Eliminating Violence Against Women in the Field of Criminal Justice:
Forms, Strategies and Tools”. The present publication includes the background papers
of the workshop, collected and published by UNICRI in its role of PNI Coordinating
Institute.
