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Participants at the conference on Women, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
Qatar’s Permanent Mission to the UN, in collaboration with Italy, Thailand, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) hosted a meeting on “Women, Crime Prevention, Criminal Justice and the Post-2015 Development Agenda”, on the sidelines of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly.
The event, chaired by UNODC chief Yury Fedotov, was attended by speakers to discuss the role of women in crime prevention and criminal justice.
The speakers included the President of the 70th UN General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft; the wife of the UN Secretary-General, Ban Soon-taek; Academy Award winning actress and UNODC Goodwill Ambassador Mira Sorvino and the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning Amina Mohammed.
HE Dr Al-Qahtani, Director of the International Organisations Department, highlighted the importance of the meeting which followed a series of meetings including the 13th Crime Congress held in Qatar in April 2015 which adopted the Doha Declaration on integrating crime prevention and criminal justice into the wider UN agenda.
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