Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a feature of science fiction writing for almost a century, but it is only in more recent years that the prospect of truly autonomous robotics - even those that have only limited functionality - have become viable. While this potentially will provide great opportunities, the development of AI is likely to impact upon the very functioning of society.
Every year, UNICRI’s Training and Advanced Education Unit organises a wide range of short courses and programmes to provide for the needs of local, national and international bodies working in the field of justice and crime prevention. Confronting some of today’s most pressing crime prevention and criminal justice issues, the courses provide professionals with both the knowledge and the practical skills to help advance justice in their field.
Countering gender-based violence, addressing vulnerability factors and empowering women have always been at the forefront of UNICRI work. Over the last 50 years the Institute has centered its crime prevention, justice and human rights protection programmes on gender issues and reducing the factors of vulnerability of women and girls.
A new pilot initiative “Voices against crime” will developed by UNICRI in cooperation with the Municipality of Naples, the participation of the media partners Il Mattino and Fanpage and the involvement of several NGOs.
The initiative aims to give voice to the victims through the collection of their stories and to make their experiences the starting point for the implementation of an awareness campaign to promote future interventions on prevention, development and assistance.
Cities hold out the promise of concentrated economic dynamism, predictable access to services, and opportunities for democratic citizenship. Urbanization is a transformative process to a large extent, synonymous with modernization, and development. In most cases, as countries urbanize they become more advanced, more developed and more prosperous.
Yet for hundreds of millions of people on the wrong side of the breach of urban poverty and exclusion, violence and insecurity have become facts of everyday life, denying them the benefits of the right to the city.