Whereas crime victims deserve privacy and closure, the General Assembly hereby:
a. defines, for the purposes of this resolution, a "victim" as any person (V) in a member state, as well as those authorised to make legal decisions on V's behalf (if V is legally incompetent) and V's next of kin (if V is deceased), where V has been harmed by any person (H) during H's commission of a crime that H has been charged with committing,
b. declares that each victim of any crime which a person has been charged with committing (with that victim's free and informed consent in each instance) enjoys the right to: i. be informed about the progress and verdict of that person's trial,
ii. attend that person's trial, including their sentencing, and
iii. be informed about that person's temporary or permanent release from any location, including prison, where they may be detained for committing that crime against them,
c. mandates that members not disclose any victim's personal information in a manner that could result in the person who committed that crime violating their privacy (including by contacting or attempting to contact them by any means without their free and informed consent),
d. clarifies that Article c does not prevent those representing a victim, or the person charged with committing the crime against them, in a trial between the two parties from using that victim's personal information in that trial for the sole purposes of such representation,
e. requires members to tell every victim about all of the provisions of this resolution as soon as possible after they become a victim, and
f. clarifies that nothing in this resolution prevents members from enacting further protections for victims.
