“VICTIMS: PLACE, RIGHTS AND ASSISTANCE” ON THE AGENDA OF THE 27TH CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN MINISTERS OF JUSTICE IN YEREVAN
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18:07 09/10/06
The Ministers of Justice of the Council of Europe”s 46 member States
will meet in Yerevan (Armenia) on 12 and 13 October to find new
ways of promoting and developing support and assistance to victims,
facilitating their access to justice and ensuring that victims of
crime do not also become victims of administrative procedures and
bureaucracy.
The President of Armenia, Robert Kocharian, and the Council of
Europe”s Director General of Legal Affairs, Guy de Vel, will address
the participants when the conference opens on Thursday 12 October at
9 am (the meeting will be open to the press until 10.30 am).
During the conference, the ministers present will sign a number of
Council of Europe treaties.
The increasing rate of criminality as well as the threat and the acts
of terrorism demonstrate the need for member States to promote the
individual”s security and dignity and respond to violence by devising
and implementing social and judicial measures to assist the victims.
The conference will provide an opportunity to review existing standards
and practices in the member countries, as well as any shortcomings
in them or their implementation, and identify needs for additional
instruments.
The Council of Europe adopted a new recommendation on assistance to
crime victims (Rec (2006) 8) in June 2006. The Council of Europe
has long regarded aid for victims as a priority, having adopted a
Convention on the compensation of victims of violent crimes in 1983
and the Convention on the prevention of terrorism and the Convention
on action against trafficking in human beings in 2005.
Council of Europe Press Division
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress