INTRODUCTORY NOTE
It is with pride that the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention ofCrime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI) offers to the international community
Resource Material Series No. 69.
This volume contains the Annual Report for 2005, the work produced in the 130th
International Training Course that was conducted from 16 May to 23 June 2005 and theSeventh Course on Corruption Control in Criminal Justice that was conducted from 18 October
to 12 November 2004. The main theme of the 130th Course was “Integrated Strategies toConfront Domestic Violence and Child Abuse”.
Domestic violence and child abuse are problems that plague every nation. They areparticularly harmful because they often affect the most vulnerable members of society, i.e.
women and children, and most often occur in the home – the place where we are supposed tofeel most safe. Up until quite recently such violence and abuse was considered a family matterin all but the most extreme cases. Coupled with the fact that these crimes occur invariably inthe home, and thus are rarely witnessed by others, law enforcement agencies rarelyintervened and the victims were thus left to suffer in silence.
However, there is a growing realization in most societies that domestic violence and childabuse need to be taken more seriously and treated as the crimes they are. Many countries
have now established specific laws, legal procedures and agencies to deal appropriately withthe problem. The United Nations has taken the lead in this matter in order to make theinternational community aware of its responsibilities with the 1978 Convention on theElimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the 1989 Convention on
the Rights of the Child, the CEDAW General Recommendations and many General Assembly
resolutions calling for action against domestic violence and child abuse.
Nevertheless, there are still many countries that are behind in taking the necessary
measures to protect their most vulnerable citizens. This topic was chosen for this Course inorder to highlight the need for governments to take the necessary measures to combat
domestic violence and child abuse.
Corruption undermines democratic institutions, retards economic development andcontributes to government instability. It is a problem for both rich and poor nations in both thepublic and private sector. It is a perennial evil that constantly needs to be challenged. For thesereasons UNAFEI holds a multiple country course specifically on Corruption Control everyyear.
The adoption in 2003 by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention against
Corruption was a milestone, creating for the first time a treaty specifically intended to address
corruption across the whole of the globe. Its entry into force in December of 2005 will require
States Parties to implement a number of measures to tackle corruption in a comprehensiveway, including measures directed at prevention, criminalization, international cooperation, andasset recovery. It is hoped that all countries, including our participants’ countries, willpromptly ratify this Convention and in so doing take a step closer to a world free of corruption.
In this issue, in regard to the 130th Course, papers contributed by visiting experts, selectedindividual presentation papers from among the participants, and the Reports of the Course arepublished. I regret that not all the papers submitted by the Course participants could bev

published. In regard to the Seventh Corruption Course the papers contributed by the visiting
experts and the Report of the General Discussion are published.
I would like to pay tribute to the contributions of the Government of Japan, particularly theMinistry of Justice, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the Asia Crime
Prevention Foundation for providing indispensable and unwavering support to UNAFEI’sinternational training programmes.
Finally I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all who so unselfishly assisted in thepublication of this series; in particular, the editor of Resource Material Series No. 69, Mr.
Simon Cornell, who so tirelessly dedicated himself to this Series.
July 2006

Masahiro Tauchi
Director of UNAFEIvi