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The Vienna Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has focused on the issue of organised crime and its prevention.
On October 27/28 2005, a Regional Crime Prevention Forum for NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe was hold in the Vienna International Centre concentrating on human trafficking, corruption and urban crime.
The main objective of this initiative was to grant NGOs working in those fields and opportunity to describe the problems they face and the inputs they require. A particular concern at the forum was identifying ways and means of securing more support for those NGOs -- either through improved co-operation within the NGO community or through closer ties with international organisations working in the field, especially the Vienna-based UNODC.
The forum has allowed to adopt an NGO position paper describing the challenges that NGOs face, the strategies they wish to implement, the cooperation they seek and the assistance they require. Once adopted, the position paper was submitted to governments, as well as to the forthcoming session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europeand other international bodies active in the field of crime prevention in all its various forms.
Among the ideas being mooted for inclusion in the position paper was that of setting up a permanent network of NGOs active in combating organised crime as well as holding similar fora in other regions.
