World’s crime fighters push back against COVID-19’s ‘divisions and inequalities’

The world’s largest crime prevention and criminal justice gathering wrapped up on Friday, rejecting “the divisions and inequalities” exposed by COVID-19, according to the top UN crime-fighting official.

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