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UN Expert Meeting Recommends Declaration of Basic Principles on Restorative Justice

Van Ness, Daniel W
June 4, 2015

Source: (2001) Restorative Justice Online. December 2001 Edition.

Experts convened by the UN met to consider whether the UN should adopt international guidelines on restorative justice. It agreed that guidelines were necessary, and recommended adoption of a Declaration of Basic Principles on the Use of Restorative Justice Programmes in Criminal Matters that it formulated during the course of its meeting.

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