From 26-28 June 2026, UNICRI participated in the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network (PNI) Experts’ Meeting on Reducing Reoffending, held at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan. The meeting, hosted by the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), focused on enhancing the contribution of the PNI to the implementation of the United Nations Model Strategies on Reducing Reoffending, also known as the Kyoto Model Strategies.
Advances in digital technologies have improved communication and the sharing of information have become an important component of security and peacebuilding efforts. At the same time, they have enabled new forms of gender-based violence and disinformation that disproportionately affect women in public and professional roles.
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), through its CBRN Risk Mitigation and Security Governance Unit, is expanding its pool of experts in the area of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) risk mitigation and security governance. The Institute therefore invites individual experts to express their interest in contributing to its activities aimed at strengthening global efforts in the prevention, detection and response to CBRN risks.
South East and Eastern Europe strengthened regional cooperation on CBRN risk mitigation through the first International CBRN Donors Coordination Meeting, enhancing preparedness, coordination and support for national and regional priorities organized under the European Union CBRN Centres of Excellence Initiative.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), in partnership with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), successfully convened a regional Workshop on Implementing and Enforcing Legislation: The Chemical Weapons Convention and Chemical Security in Asia in Manila from 2 to 4 June 2026.
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and the Public Prosecution Office of Egypt (represented by Judicial Inspection department, Training and Capacity Building office) have strengthened their cooperation through a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at enhancing research, technical cooperation and capacity-building in the fields of crime prevention and criminal justice.
A new and rapidly evolving form of online harm is attracting growing international attention. Characterized by violence, coercion, exploitation, self-harm and criminality, the so-called “Com Network” challenges traditional policy, security and safeguarding frameworks and defy easy categorization as terrorism, violent extremism or crime.
