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6.
The Seventh Congress, d the Eighth Congress e and the Ninth Congress f
also made specific recommendations concerning women prisoners.
7.
In the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges
of the Twenty-first Century, g adopted also by the Tenth Congress, Member
States committed themselves to taking into account and addressing, within the
United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, as well as
within national crime prevention and criminal justice strategies, any disparate
impact of programmes and policies on women and men (para. 11); and to the
development of action-oriented policy recommendations based on the special
needs of women as prisoners and offenders (para. 12). The plans of action for
the implementation of the Vienna Declaration h contain a separate section
(sect. XIII) devoted to specific recommended measures to follow up on the
commitments undertaken in paragraphs 11 and 12 of the Declaration, including
that of States reviewing, evaluating and, if necessary, modifying their
legislation, policies, procedures and practices relating to criminal matters, in a
manner consistent with their legal systems, in order to ensure that women are
treated fairly by the criminal justice system.
8.
The General Assembly, in its resolution 58/183 of 22 December 2003,
entitled “Human rights in the administration of justice”, called for increased
attention to be devoted to the issue of women in prison, including the children
of women in prison, with a view to identifying the key problems and ways in
which they could be addressed.
9.
In its resolution 61/143 of 19 December 2006, entitled “Intensification of
efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women”, the General
Assembly stressed that “violence against women” meant any act of genderbased violence resulting in, or likely to result in, physical, sexual or
psychological harm or suffering to women, including arbitrary deprivation of
liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life, and urged States to
review and, where appropriate, revise, amend or abolish all laws, regulations,
policies, practices and customs discriminating against women or having a
discriminatory impact on women, and ensure that provisions of multiple legal
systems, where they existed, complied with international human rights
obligations, commitments and principles, including the principle of
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Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders,
Milan, 26 August-6 September 1985: report prepared by the Secretariat (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.86.IV.1), chap. I, sect. E, resolution 6 (on the fair treatment of women
by the criminal justice system).
Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners (General Assembly resolution 45/111, annex);
Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders,
Havana, 27 August-7 September 1990: report prepared by the Secretariat (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.91.IV.2), chap. I, sect. C, resolutions 17 (on pretrial detention), 19 (on
the management of criminal justice and development of sentencing policies) and 21 (on
international and interregional cooperation in prison management and community-based
sanctions and other matters).
A/CONF.169/16/Rev.1, chap. I, resolutions 1 (on recommendations on the four substantive
topics of the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of
Offenders), 5 (on the practical implementation of the Standard Minimum Rules for the
Treatment of Prisoners) and 8 (on the elimination of violence against women).
Resolution 55/59, annex.
Resolution 56/261, annex.
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