What's the line between less serious offences and more serious offences?

A total of six serious crimes cases were heard by the Court of Appeal.

The Serious Crimes Unit has met with communities in 12 districts to inform them of the closure of the serious crimes process and of the progress achieved to date.

States did not have a responsibility to protect people from serious crimes but rather a responsibility not to commit them.

Meanwhile, the Serious Crimes Unit, the Defence Lawyers Unit and the Special Panels for serious crimes are finalizing the laborious process of handing over all relevant documentation related to the serious crimes process to the Timorese authorities.

At the same time, all the units of the Serious Crimes process in East Timor, namely the Serious Crimes Unit, the special panels and the Defence Lawyers Unit, are intensifying efforts to maximize results.

2. Recognition of the good name of the victims and of the serious crimes of which they were victims.

Since my last report, the Serious Crimes Unit has made significant progress towards achieving justice for crimes committed in 1999.

(d) How the Statute would confer jurisdiction over serious crimes with an international character.

Stipulates that serious criminal offences are prosecuted ex proprio motu.

SCU has focused on 10 priority cases and 5 widespread patterns of violence.

Notwithstanding these developments, the world today is still beset by violence and other forms of serious crime.

Before I conclude my statement, let me comment briefly on the serious crimes process.

Legislation has expanded gradually, and there is no doubt that it will continue to broaden in scope to cover more offences, including financial crimes.

I believe we need to do more to help people who are victimized by crime, not do less.

Despite the concerted efforts of SCU, it may not be possible for the Serious Crimes process to fully respond to the desire for justice of all those affected by the violence in 1999 within the limited time and resources that remain available.

The offences of terrorism and related acts are introduced into the category of serious offences, making it impossible for release on bail to be granted.

Programme I Support for the public administration and justice system of Timor Leste and for justice in the area of serious crimes

Support for the public administration and justice system of Timor Leste and for justice in the area of serious crimes

Both find it difficult to address serious crimes, including crimes of an inter ethnic nature, organized crime and corruption, which remain serious threats to Kosovo's stability.

The link between the smuggling of natural resources and other types of serious crime, such as corruption and terrorism, was also underscored.

Each State party shall make these offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account their grave nature.

The unbelievable crimes. Our history grips us like a nightmare, for the crimes of the past scar the present and induce yet more crimes in the future.

Impunity encourages future crimes against humanity.

There are also growing fears that climate change will more adversely threaten the lives of the poor.

In Trinidad and Tobago, serious crime, including relatively rare crime such as kidnapping, increased rapidly between 1998 and 2002.

These prosecutions are nonetheless welcome, since they restore public confidence in efforts to combat serious crime and impunity.

While the scope of that Convention does not extend beyond drug related offences, it established a legal framework that has served as the basis for policy development in the area of serious crime prevention.

The issue of racist offences was complex and called for more research and more sophisticated methods of inquiry.

In this process, the ICTR will establish the guilt or innocence of the accused, bring justice to victims of the massive crimes that were committed and establish a record of facts that can aid reconciliation in Rwanda.

Also addressed were the continuing requirements for enhancing transparency and accountability, the future of the serious crimes process and the need to support marginalized groups.

The Serious Crimes Unit, the Defence Lawyers Unit and the Special Panels are preparing the handover of necessary materials to the relevant Timorese authorities.

Some States reported on the role and functions of recently established specialized national coordinating structures against terrorism and other serious crimes.

In addition, the Serious Crimes Unit provides training to 21 national police officers and 12 national lawyers and technical staff.

The unbelievable crimes. Our history grips us like a nightmare, for the crimes of the past scar the present and induce yet more crimes in the future.

Many more are feared as violence among the main sectarian groups escalates.

In this connection, the Commission of Experts wrote to me on 29 April, to request that the liquidation of the Serious Crimes Unit be suspended and that measures be considered to safeguard the institutional knowledge of the serious crimes process until the findings of the Commission have been submitted and the Security Council has had a chance to consider them.

As a result, more recent international instruments call on States parties to punish money laundering arising from all or most serious offences.

Tanzania is a State party to the International Criminal Court a Court established to bring to justice those accused of genocide and other serious crimes against humanity.

The Serious Crimes Unit and the Special Panels are in the process of preparing a database that will allow electronic searches of all of the Unit's cases.

Allowing the past to cloud our critical faculties undermines Israeli democracy, and will have further dangerous consequences in the future.

Azerbaijan stated that its domestic law required involvement of an organized criminal group for purposes of the offences established in accordance with article 5, paragraph 1 (a) (i), and covered all serious crimes involving organized criminal groups.

The indictments filed by the Serious Crimes Unit cover 572 of the estimated 1,400 murders committed in 1999.

It is clear that the serious crimes process will not be able to respond fully to the desire for justice on behalf of all the victims of the 1999 violence.

Crime statistics show a positive trend. Low levels of serious crimes against members of minority communities are reported two Kosovo Albanians are on trial for the only case of murder of a Kosovo Serb since March 2004.