UNODC holds the 2nd Joint Meeting of UN-CTS Focal Points and ICCS Technical Advisory Group
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), with support from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics of Peru (INEI), and the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence in Statistical Information on Government, Crime, Victimization and Justice held the 2nd Joint Meeting of the Focal Points to the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS) and of the Technical Advisory Group to the International Classification of Crimes for Statistical Purposes (ICCS).
Organized within the framework of the 4th International Conference on Governance, Crime and Justice Statistics, the UN-CTS & ICCS-TAG meeting was held on June 7-8 in the Lima Convention Center of Lima City, Peru. With the participation of representatives of National Statistical Offices and Criminal Justice Institutions from 35 countries, the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat), the Organization of the American States (OAS), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the World Justice Project, the CariSECURE-UNDP project, and the InfoSegura-UNDP project, members of these groups were able to discuss on the most recent methodologies in measuring SDGs in the area of violence, trafficking, corruption and access to justice.
Countries were able to review the general outline of the ICCS Implementation Manual, working in sessions to assess the main challenges faced when building correspondence tables, disaggregating specific variables, or applying certain counting units and rules. They also shared their main concerns regarding the collection of data on crime, criminal justice systems and metadata for the revised questionnaire of the UN-CTS. The meeting devoted a specific session to sharing countries’ experience to produce data on SDG indicators 16.1.3 on physical and sexual violence, 16.3.1 on crime reporting rate, 11.7.2 on physical or sexual harassment and psychological violence, 16.1.4 on feeling of safety. The overall discussion emphasized the shared need to promote the adoption of initiatives and international standards to ensure the statistical quality of data produced by National Statistical Offices.
