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21.
Invites States, upon their request, to benefit from the technical advice and
assistance provided by the relevant United Nations agencies and programmes in order to
strengthen their national capacities and infrastructures in the field of the administration of
justice, including in addressing overcrowding, overincarceration and violence against
children in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice, and calls upon the High
Commissioner to strengthen advisory services and technical assistance in this regard;
22.
Calls upon relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council to pay
special attention to questions relating to the effective protection of human rights in the
administration of justice, including issues relating to violence, death and serious injury in
situations of deprivation of liberty;
23.
Invites States to take into account aspects relating to human rights in the
administration of justice at the upcoming Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice to be held in Kyoto, Japan, from 20 to 27 April 2020;
24.
Requests the High Commissioner to submit to the Human Rights Council, at
its forty-seventh session, an analytical report on human rights in the administration of
justice, in particular on current and emerging challenges in the protection of persons
deprived of their liberty, including judicial oversight, drawing on the experience of United
Nations and regional human rights mechanisms and seeking the views of States, including
on their policies and best practices, civil society, and other relevant stakeholders;
25.
Decides to continue its consideration of this issue under the same agenda
item, in accordance with its annual programme of work.
39th meeting
26 September 2019
[Adopted without a vote.]
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