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equal to those available in the community, and to ensure that women, including
detained women, have access to adequate health services and counselling, including
those particularly needed during pregnancy;
33. Encourages Member States to promote effective supervision of drug
treatment and rehabilitation facilities by competent domestic authorities so as to
ensure adequate quality of drug treatment and rehabilitation services and prevent any
possible acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in accordance
with domestic legislation and applicable international law;
34. Calls upon Member States to enhance access to treatment for drug use
disorders for those who are incarcerated and promote effective oversight and
encourage, as appropriate, self-assessments of confinement facilities, taking into
consideration the United Nations standards and norms on crime prevention and
criminal justice, including the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the
Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), 15 implement, where appropriate,
measures aimed at addressing and eliminating prison overcrowding and violence, and
provide capacity-building to relevant national authorities;
35. Encourages Member States to promote proportionate national sentencing
policies, practices and guidelines for drug-related offences, whereby the severity of
penalties is proportionate to the gravity of offences and both mitigating and
aggravating factors are taken into account, including the circumstances enumerated
in article 3 of the 1988 Convention and other relevant and applicable international
law, and in accordance with national legislation;
36. Calls for the promotion of bilateral, regional and international
cooperation, including through intelligence-sharing and cross-border cooperation,
aimed at addressing and countering the world drug problem more effectively, in
particular by encouraging and supporting such cooperation by those States most
directly affected by illicit crop cultivation and the illicit production, manufacture,
transit, trafficking, distribution and abuse of narcotic drugs and psychotropic
substances;
37. Encourages Member States to develop and implement, as appropriate,
comprehensive policies and programmes that, by fostering social development, are
aimed at the prevention of crime and violence and that address the multiple factors
that contribute to marginalization, crime and victimization, in close cooperation with
relevant stakeholders, including civil society, and based on scientific evidence and
taking into account good practices;
38. Reaffirms the need for Member States to review and, if necessary,
strengthen coordinated measures, enhance capacity-building to counter moneylaundering arising from drug trafficking and improve legal cooperation, including
judicial cooperation, where appropriate, at the national, regional and international
levels, to dismantle organized criminal groups involved in drug trafficking, in order
to provide for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of the
perpetrators of such crimes;
39. Underlines the need to strengthen regional, subregional and international
cooperation in criminal matters, as appropriate, including judicial cooperation in the
areas of, inter alia, extradition, mutual legal assistance and transfer of proceedings,
in accordance with the three international drug control conventions and other
international legal instruments and national legislation, and to strive to provide
appropriate resources to national competent authorities, including through the
provision of targeted technical assistance to requesting countries;
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