DPS-Modern Indian School (DPS-MIS) student Saumya Murgai represented Qatar at the Kyoto Congress Youth Forum, a special precursor event conducted for the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, also known as the Kyoto Protocol, recently.
She participated as a youth advocate and had the privilege of serving as the rapporteur at the Congress. Out of 150 youth advocates from 85 countries and regions worldwide, a group of six rapporteurs was selected prior to the conference and Saumya won this distinction.
As a rapporteur, Saumya carefully listened to the points discussed, drafted recommendations which were then formulated and presented, first at the closing plenary of the Youth Forum and then at the actual 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Her performance and vigour were highly appreciated and, as an acknowledgement, her pictures were published on the Thimun Qatar social media accounts and the Japanese Ministry of Justice's official Twitter account for the Youth Forum.
After the forum ended, Saumya attended the actual 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and got the opportunity to listen to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) officials discussing the world’s pressing problems.
Saumya has now received an invitation from the UNODC office in Vienna on the basis of her performance, to brief and present the recommendations drafted at the Kyoto Congress as well as address and have a question-answer session at the Ecosoc Youth Forum at the United Nations headquarters in New York in March.
The UN conference has been held once every five years since 1955 and is the largest and most diverse conference in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice. It has in attendance justice ministers, attorney-generals, criminal justice professionals (prosecutors, judges, prison officers, parole officers) and practitioners.
The Youth Forum was introduced in 2015 in Doha and organised in Kyoto this year along with the actual 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
As a rapporteur, Saumya carefully listened to the points discussed, drafted recommendations which were then formulated and presented, first at the closing plenary of the Youth Forum and then at the actual 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Her performance and vigour were highly appreciated and, as an acknowledgement, her pictures were published on the Thimun Qatar social media accounts and the Japanese Ministry of Justice's official Twitter account for the Youth Forum.
After the forum ended, Saumya attended the actual 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and got the opportunity to listen to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) officials discussing the world’s pressing problems.
Saumya has now received an invitation from the UNODC office in Vienna on the basis of her performance, to brief and present the recommendations drafted at the Kyoto Congress as well as address and have a question-answer session at the Ecosoc Youth Forum at the United Nations headquarters in New York in March.
The UN conference has been held once every five years since 1955 and is the largest and most diverse conference in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice. It has in attendance justice ministers, attorney-generals, criminal justice professionals (prosecutors, judges, prison officers, parole officers) and practitioners.
The Youth Forum was introduced in 2015 in Doha and organised in Kyoto this year along with the actual 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.