A/C.3/65/L.5
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: Limited
6 October 2010
Original: English
Sixty-fifth session
Third Committee
Agenda item 105
Crime prevention and criminal justice
United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners
and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the
Bangkok Rules)
Note by the Secretariat
By its resolution 2010/16 of 22 July 2010, the Economic and Social Council
recommended to the General Assembly the adoption of the following draft resolution:
United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and
Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules)
The General Assembly,
Recalling the United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention
and criminal justice primarily related to the treatment of prisoners, in
particular the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, 1 the
procedures for the effective implementation of the Standard Minimum Rules
for the Treatment of Prisoners, 2 the Body of Principles for the Protection of
All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment 3 and the Basic
Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners, 4
Recalling also the United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention
and criminal justice primarily related to alternatives to imprisonment, in
particular the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial
Measures (the Tokyo Rules) 5 and the basic principles on the use of restorative
justice programmes in criminal matters, 6
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Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, vol. I, Part I: Universal Instruments
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.XIV.4 (vol. I, Part I)), sect. J, No. 34.
Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/47, annex.
Resolution 43/173, annex.
Resolution 45/111, annex.
Resolution 45/110, annex.
Economic and Social Council resolution 2002/12, annex.
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