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UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice: Bahrain

Bahraini security forces have beaten children and threatened them with rape and electric shocks after detaining them in protest-related cases during the tenth anniversary of a 2011 pro-democracy uprising. Photo: Bahrain police members (File photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons).
Source: Reuters, March 10, 2021

Mission of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice: "The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) is the United Nations body of Member States responsible for setting out global strategy to prevent crime and promote stable criminal justice systems. The 40-member UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice formulates international policies and recommends activities in the field of crime control...The Commission offers nations a forum for exchanging expertise and information on matters of crime prevention and criminal justice and to determine strategies and priorities for combating crime at the global level....Priority areas mandated by the [Economic and Social] Council when it established the Commission in 1992 are: international action to combat national and transnational crime...and improving the efficiency and fairness of criminal justice administration systems." (Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice website)

Term of office: 2022-2024

Bahrain's Record on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice:
"Significant human rights issues included: torture and cases of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; harsh prison conditions, including lack of sufficient access to medical care in prisons; arbitrary detention; political prisoners;... political opposition figures reported the judiciary remained vulnerable to political pressure, especially in high-profile cases."
(U.S. State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2020, Bahrain)

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