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UN Crime Commission Acts on Basic Principles.

Van Ness, Daniel W
June 4, 2015

Source: (2002) Restorative Justice Online May 2002 Edition.

At its Eleventh Session, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice approved a Canadian resolution that encourages countries to draw from Basic Principles on the Use of Restorative Justice Programmes in Criminal Matters in developing and implementing restorative justice.

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