UN CRIME CONGRESS
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD'S crime-fighting great and good met in Bangkok in April, at the United Nations' 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. They decided rich countries should better help the poor to fight organised crime. Keith Nuthall reports.There was no big launch of a new over-arching UN anti-crime convention at this year's Congress - indeed, delegates seemed almost to be suffering from convention-fatigue. International commitments have been made in recent years to fight corruption, organised crime and terrorism amongst other evils, yet ...
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