and compensation; "5. Invites Governments to establish and contribute to an international fund, within the framework of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, for the compensation of, and assistance to, victims of transnational crimes and abuse of power, whether individual or collective, and for the promotion of international research, data collection and dissemination and the establishment of policy guidelines in this respect; "6. Recommends that States should prepare training programmes based on the principles of the Declaration, aimed at defining and disseminating the rights of victims of crime and abuse of power, which should be part of the curricula of faculties of law, criminological institutes, law enforcement training centres and judicial colleges; "7. Calls upon States to exchange, both at the international and regional levels, information and experiences related to the means used to implement their legal provisions concerned with the protection of victims of crime and abuse of power; "8. Recommends the United Nations and other organizations concerned to strengthen their technical co-operation activities in order to help Governments to implement the Declaration and other relevant guidelines and to strengthen international co-operation in this respect." Decision 11/114. The role of criminal law in the protection of nature At its 12th meeting, on 16 February 1990, the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control decided to recommend that the Economic and Social Council transmit to the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders the following draft resolution for action under item 3 (topic I) of its provisional agenda: "The role of criminal law in the protection of nature and the environment "The_Eighth_United Nations Congress 90..the Preventipn pf Crime and„t.he Treatment of Offenders, "Recognizing that the environment must be protected per se in its 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the role of criminal law in protecting nature and the environment, and the importance of compensating and assisting victims of transnational crimes and abuse of power. These themes suggest that the category should be related to environmental protection and humanitarian aid, rather than economic development or industry.

**Category**
Natural resources and environment, Humanitarian aid and relief