Event Details
Where
VENUE: Vienna International Centre
Posted on 07 May 2025
From 19 to 23 May 2025, representatives of UN member states, international organizations and civil society will gather in Vienna – and in virtual events – for the annual UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), hosted by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and chaired this year by the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN in Vienna.
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) will be present and be active at the CCPCJ throughout and will participate in the following events during the week, to highlight our latest research and activities related to enhancing understanding of issues on the agenda at this year’s CCPCJ, including crime prevention and community resilience, crimes that affect the environment, organized fraud operations, youth criminality, human trafficking and other challenges. We will also be contributing with recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of policy responses, for better impacts on communities and societies around the world.
Side events:
COMBATING CRIMES THAT AFFECT ENVIRONMENT TO PROTECT BIODIVERSITY: STRATEGIES AND NATIONAL INITIATIVES
Date: 19 May 2025 Time: 13:10–14:10 CEST
Organized by Armenia and co-sponsored by France, the UNODC Border Management Branch, Interpol and the GI-TOC.
Venue: M6, Vienna International Centre (in-person)
BUILDING RESILIENCE TO ORGANIZED CRIME IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Date: 19 May 2025 Time: 13:10–14:10 CEST
Organized by the GI-TOC and co-sponsored by Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Canada.
This side event will feature speakers from Resilience Fund initiatives around the world, and will mark the launch of a policy brief on the role of civil society in preventing and combating organized crime, as a contribution to the CCPCJ ahead of the 15th UN Crime Congress.
Venue: Mozart Room, Vienna International Centre (in-person)
PREVENTING LETHAL VIOLENCE AND RECRUITMENT INTO CRIMINAL NETWORKS WITH FOCUSED DETERRENCE AND OTHER PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES
Date: 20 MAY 2025 Time: 10.00–11.00 CEST
Organized by Sweden and co-sponsored by the UNODC Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Section, the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI) and the GI-TOC.
Venue: M6, Vienna International Centre + ONLINE
RESPONDING TO YOUTH CRIMINALITY LINKED TO TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE NORDIC AND BALTIC REGIONS
Date: 20 MAY 2025 Time: 11.30–12.30 CEST
Organized by the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control and co-sponsored by Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and the GI-TOC.
There is a growing concern in the Nordic and Baltic regions about youth criminality linked to organized crime, both nationally and transnationally. This event will contribute to a better understanding of the issues through presentations from HEUNI on preventive and responsive measures related to youth crime and from the GI-TOC on their recent research on the phenomenon.
Venue: MOE79, Vienna International Centre + ONLINE
RAISING AWARENESS OF THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF FRAUD
Date: 21 MAY 2025 Time: 10.00–11.00 CEST
Organized by Australia and co-sponsored by the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, VietNam and GI-TOC.
Focusing on how the rapidly evolving fraud phenomenon in South East Asia, this event will provide an update on the latest trends in fraud and scams globally, explore how they converge with other types of organized crime (such as human trafficking), and analyze the multiple harms they inflict on both victims and those coerced and exploited into becoming part of scam operations. Government and civil society experts will also offer recommenda-tions on what can be done to strengthen the current international response.
Venue: M3, Vienna International Centre + ONLINE
ENHANCING MULTILATERAL AND MULTI-STAKEHOLDER RESPONSES TO CRIMES THAT AFFECT ENVIRONMENT
Date: 22 MAY 2025 Time: 11.30–12.30 CEST
Organized by the GI-TOC and co-sponsored by France, the EU, Germany, Norway, Peru and Colombia.
In April 2025, the Republic of France and the GI-TOC, supported by the European Union through the ECO-SOLVE project, hosted a security and development dialogue to enhance multilateral and multistakeholder responses to crimes that affect the environment. This event will present the outcomes of this unique international conference, in advance of upcoming multilateral meetings that will address crimes that affect the environment.
Venue: M7, Vienna International Centre + ONLINE
HUMAN TRAFFICKING ENTERPRISES, GLOBAL TRENDS AND VICTIM–OFFENDER OVERLAP
Date: 22 MAY 2025 Time: 11.30–12.30 CEST
Organized by Criminologists Without Borders and co-sponsored by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the World Society of Victimology, the International Sociological Association, the American Society of Criminology and the GI-TOC.
Venue: MOE79, Vienna International Centre (in-person)
STRENGTHENING CIVIL SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT AT THE 15TH UN CONGRESS ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Date: 22 MAY 2025 Time: 15.00–16.00 CEST
Organized by the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice with the support of the UNODC Civil Society Unit, Group of Friends of Multistakeholder Participa-tion in UNODC Matters, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Victim Support Asia, Criminologists Without Borders, Asia Crime Prevention Foundation, the GI-TOC, Soroptimist International, the Wildlife Justice Commission, the Centre for Governance Research-Pakistan, Penal Reform International and Kennis.
Venue: M3, Vienna International Centre + ONLINE
CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE UN REFORM: FROM DOMESTIC TO INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE AND BACK
Date: 23 MAY 2025 Time: 11.30–12:30 CEST
Organized by the European Public Law Organization (EPLO), Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Vienna NGO Committee on Sustainable Development and co-sponsored by the GI-TOC.
Venue: MOE100, Vienna International Centre (in-person)
BUILDING BRIDGES, SPEAKING UP AND KEEPING WATCH: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN CYBERCRIME CONVENTION
Date: 23 MAY 2025 Time: 13.00–14:00 CEST
Organized by the International Press institute and the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Preven-tion and Criminal Justice, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Czechia, Mexico, Peru, Switzerland, UK, Media Foundation for West Africa and co-sponsored by the GI-TOC
Venue: M7, Vienna International Centre + ONLINE
