A/HRC/RES/42/32 importance of human rights in crime prevention and the daily administration of criminal justice, Recalling all relevant General Assembly resolutions, in particular resolutions 65/229 of 21 December 2010 on the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), 70/175 of 17 December 2015 on the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) and 72/193 of 19 December 2017 on promoting the practical application of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, as well as relevant United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice relating to the treatment of prisoners and to alternatives to imprisonment, including the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (the Tokyo Rules), Acknowledging that 2020 will mark the tenth anniversary of the Bangkok Rules, the thirtieth anniversary of the Tokyo Rules and the sixty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners by the first United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1955, which were subsequently revised as the Nelson Mandela Rules in 2015, Emphasizing that the Nelson Mandela Rules and the Bangkok Rules recognize the importance of technical assistance, capacity-building and the voluntary exchange of good practices and challenges faced in their implementation, and that the General Assembly, when adopting the Bangkok Rules, invited specialized agencies of the United Nations system and relevant regional and international intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to engage in their implementation, Mindful that one of the basic principles of the Nelson Mandela Rules is that all prisoners are to be treated with the respect due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings, that no prisoner is to be subjected to and all prisoners are to be protected from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, for which no circumstances whatsoever may be invoked as a justification, and that the safety and security of prisoners, staff, service providers and visitors are to be ensured at all times, Recognizing that women prisoners and offenders may be vulnerable and have specific needs and requirements, and that the General Assembly, in its resolution 65/229, invited Member States to take into consideration the specific needs and realities of women as prisoners when developing relevant legislation, procedures, policies and action plans and to draw, as appropriate, on the Bangkok Rules, Mindful that, in order for the principle of non-discrimination embodied in the Nelson Mandela Rules to be put into practice, account should be taken of the distinctive needs of women prisoners in the application of the Rules, and that providing for such needs in order to accomplish substantial gender equality should not be regarded as discriminatory, Recognizing the alternatives to imprisonment provided for in the Tokyo Rules, as well as the gender specificities of, and the consequent need to give priority to applying noncustodial measures to, women who have come into contact with the criminal justice system, Recognizing also that the General Assembly, in its resolution 63/241 of 24 December 2008, called upon States to give attention to the impact of parental detention and imprisonment on children, and in particular to identify and promote good practices in relation to the needs and physical, emotional, social and psychological development of babies and children affected by parental detention and imprisonment, and that the Bangkok Rules and the Nelson Mandela Rules specify that States should take into account the best interests of the child, Reiterating that one of the responsibilities of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Office of the High Commissioner is to provide advisory services and technical assistance, at the request of the State concerned, with a view to supporting actions and programmes in the field of human rights, and to coordinate activities to promote and protect human rights throughout the United Nations system in accordance with the mandate of the Office, 2