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REPORTS, GUIDES, DECLARATIONS and more...
Browse through UN-HABITAT’s library of reports, resolutions, declarations, training materials and best practices, by theme, or view them alphabetically and chronologically |
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Safer Cities Through Youth Development and Inclusiveness - Networking Event Report WUF 2004 |
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The Wednesday morning youth event in room 120-121 was an overwhelming success according to many of the more than 100 attendants. The positive beats that came from the films and presentations did attract many. The beats dished out by DJ Lovesupreme, the public and the moderator slipping through the doors did lure many more in.
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Examples of Restorative Justice Applications in South Africa |
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In determining policy and thereafter considering legislation regarding restorative justice, it is crucial to study international and more particularly local case studies to ascertain the workability of restorative justice. In this regard, the following South African examples are considered to have already had an impact on policy formulation in South Africa.
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INANDA Family Preservation Project, Inanda, Durban |
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The project employs a very intensive approach in which they offer 24 hours-7 days a week service to communities, families, youth at risk and young offenders. The project has developed into a learning centre and is currently providing training to replicate their approach throughout South Africa. The approach and the results so far are successful and suitable for replication in other African countries and cities.
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Article on Cities and Violence (CEPAL), by Laura Petrella and Franz Vanderschueren |
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La delincuencia se ha constituido en un serio problema, en los últimos 20 años, en la mayoría de las ciudades de los países desarrollados y en las áreas urbanas de los países en desarrollo que, en muchos casos, han experimentado también un fuerte aumento demográfico. Además, la delincuencia se sitúa en un contexto de globalización del crimen organizado y del tráfico y consumo de drogas.
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Young offenders and youth-at-risk : overview of current international approches, Ahmed Othmani |
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Penal Reform International works on Prison and Penal Reform around the world. A great deal of our work concerns juveniles and juvenile justice. PRI believes that a proper administration of juvenile justice cannot be achieved without a strong education and welfare system. Helping young people in conflict with the law to become law abiding adult citizens is much more the job of parents, teachers, social workers and psychologists than it is of police, courts and prisons. PRI is of the opinion that juvenile offending should be dealt with as far as possible from the formal criminal justice and penal system.
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Youth Deliquency Survey - A Methodology Paper |
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Around the world levels of crime and violence committed by youths in urban areas are on the increase. Furthermore, there is an inverse relationship between the crime and the age of the age of the perpetrators, with the age profile of criminals
constantly decreasing. To assess crime amongst young people, this Youth Offender Profile tool is being developed by the Safer Cities Programme of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat). This tool is based on previous Kenyan, South African and Tanzanian experience.
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Victimisation Surveys: A Methodology Paper(draft) |
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Construire une culture de la prévention demande du temps et consiste avant tout à créer un triple consensus : tout d'abord il faut persuader les habitants de la possibilité de limiter les effets de la criminalité et réduire ou déraciner ses causes à travers une politique de prévention. Ensuite il faut vaincre chez les habitants le sentiment d'insécurité qui les paralyse, les pousse à faire appel à la seule répression, à se résigner devant la fatalité de la criminalité ou à prendre en main leur propre justice en violant souvent les droits de l'homme. Enfin il faut faire d'eux des acteurs organisés de la lutte contre les causes et les effets de la criminalité sous toutes ses formes.
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Urban Crime Prevention: background document |
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Over the last 20 years, the increase in crime has become a problem in the majority of the world’s largest cities both in the North and the South.
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From violence to justice and security in cities, in " Environment and Urbanization" |
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This paper describes the growth in crime, especially violent crime, in cities around the world. It also describes the
underlying causes or contributory factors to this growth and the responses of citizens and governments - most of which are largely
ineffective. The final section describes new approaches which centre on more effective partnerships between communities, municipal
authorities, the police and the judicial system, and on special programmes for young people who are unemployed and excluded from many aspects of society.
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Violence Against Women in Urban Areas |
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Although women’s contribution in today’s societies is essential and indisputable, nowhere is their status on a par with men’s. Women are a vulnerable group in all areas. With respect to violence, the evidence is revealing and irrevocable: not only are women particularly affected by many forms of violence, but most often these happen inside what should be the most secure of environments; their own homes. As the United Nations Development Programme’s annual Human Development Report (1995) commented: “In no society are women secure or treated as equal to men. Personal insecurity shadows them from cradle to grave… From childhood through adulthood, they are abused because of their gender”.
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Networking Event Report WUF 2004