New York: Qatar’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, in collaboration with the permanent missions of Italy, Thailand and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), hosted a high-level event 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, drew notable speakers who discussed the role of women in crime prevention and criminal justice.
They included Mogens Lykketoft, President of the 70th UN General Assembly; Ban Soon-taek, wife of UN Secretary-General; Mira Sorvino, Academy Award winning actress and UNODC Goodwill Ambassador; Amina Mohammed, UN secretary-general’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning; and others.
Dr Al Qahtani, Director, International Organisations Department, delivered a speech on behalf of Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah. He highlighted the importance of the meeting which followed meetings, including the 13th Crime Congress in Qatar in April this year that adopted Doha Declaration on integrating crime prevention and criminal justice into the wider UN agenda.
He said policies and institutions of criminal justice must better reflect the contribution and role of women as part of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, stressing the need to ensure safe and peaceful societies to fulfil obligations to achieve sustainable development.
Sustainable development cannot be achieved without ending all forms of discrimination and violence against women and ensuring effective participation of women in political and economic life, he added.
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