Peaks and troughs

Four Friends reflect on their work at the thirteenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice held in Qatar in April

Part of the Doha skyline. | Photo: Jimmy Baikovicius / flickr CC.

Children of prisoners, building the city of restorative justice, three examples of restorative justice in practice, and the principles on the use of force and firearms by law enforcement officers were four of the topics that involved the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) Quaker team attending the thirteenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which was held in Qatar from 12-19 April.

The peaks for the team at the Congress were the support for work on the needs of children of incarcerated parents and the problems of women prisoners. The troughs concerned the way that restorative justice was sliding off the agenda, and how NGOs had to produce their own Civil Society Declaration to get their voices heard.

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