NCJ Number
210528
Date Published
March 2005
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This report presents the proceedings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting To Develop Guidelines on Justice in Matters Involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime at its meeting in Vienna on March 15-16, 2005.
Abstract
The report encompasses the organization of the meeting (opening, attendance, election of officers, and adoption of the agenda); a summary of the discussion, and adoption of the report and closing of the meeting. The summary of the discussion notes that the chairperson stated the proposed guidelines should build on and fill gaps in international norms and standards and reflect experience and best practices developed at the national level. She emphasized that it was imperative for the group to create standards for the treatment of child victims and witnesses of crime that would enable them to bear witness without suffering further harm by being victimized again by the justice system. The group adopted this report, including the appended guidelines, and recommended that the report be submitted to the 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and thereafter to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice for consideration and action at its 14th session. Appended guidelines on justice in matters involving child victims and witnesses of crime