By KUNA,
Vienna : The United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 17th session starts here Monday, attended by 300 represansitives and experts, presenting the member countries, including Kuwait, besides international organizations, governmental and non governmental bodies.
The participating country members and organizations will be discussing for five days the procedures to be taken in order to prevent crimes and enhances the international cooperation.
The participants will focus on the means to unite the efforts of member countries and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
One of the main subjects of the conference is the violence against women and the violence against foreign female workers, besides adopting strategies to support victims of sexual abuse which is at the top of the Vienna negotiations. The United Nations General Assembly stressed on exerting all the possible efforts to end all forms of violence against women, and to set up priorities to solve this problem through specific programs transmitted to the UN Secretary General.
The UN is working on productive programs to spread awareness, especially in the society and schools to prevent violence against women, and holding guiding programs for the criminals and victims at the same time.
The UN will also work on supporting initiatives of civil society organizations in order to stop such a negative phenomenon, besides presenting new procedures concerning the criminal law and sentencing, and reforming procedures like providing help to the victims.
The conference will be effectively discussing the cross-border organized crimes, including human trafficking and smuggling of migrants, as well as terrorism and corruption.
The Executive Director of (UNODC) Dr. Antonio Costa, in the opening speech of the session, called on all member countries that did not sign the agreements and international protocols concerning the national organized crime, and the cross border crimes, terrorism and corruption, to take this step as soon as possible.
The State of Kuwait is participating in the conference by a delegation headed by the consultant of the first general attorney Hamid Al-Othman, and the director of the International relations department in the Ministry of Justice Zakaria Al- Ansari, and the director of the legal department Colonel Khalil Al-Failikawi, and Lieut Colonel Khalaf Al-Harbi, and the Third Secretary at Kuwait Embassy Falah Fahad Al-Mutairi.