Officials kicking off the function.
In the framework of the implementation of the Global Programme for the Doha Declaration, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organised a training workshop on life skills using sports in order to prevent crime among youths.
The programme was held on Monday in Vienna with participation of representatives of the FIFA and the support of Qatar. The Executive Director of UNODC and a number of staff members of the Office, as well as the representative of Qatar, and a gathering of officials, experts and representatives of the concerned authorities attended the programme.
The new initiative named ‘Line up Live up’ is part of Doha Declaration Global Programme's operational projects, with the aim of promoting the role of sport in youth crimes prevention whereas teams of young people who have received a training programme within the Doha Declaration projects led the workshop to provide skills and training to protect young people from the dangers of crime, violence and drug abuse.
Major-General Abdullah Yusuf Al Mal, Adviser to the Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Doha Declaration Follow-up Committee, presented the Qatari side's speech at the opening ceremony, expressing his country's support for the work of the UNODC to prevent youth crimes through sport. He added that the sport is an essential tool for preventing young people from crime and drugs, as well as being a real means of establishing a culture of respect for law, peace and rapprochement between peoples.
Through this initiative, UNODC, in collaboration with other partners and experts in the world, is supporting Member States in a pioneering way to provide an opportunity for young people at risk to protect them from crime, violence and drugs and to transform these young people into pioneers In their societies as they spread sports values and noble principles, so as to present their experience to the youth of the world, said Dr. Al-mal. He urged Member States to communicate with the UNODC to disseminate the impact of the initiative as widely as possible.
