The document contains five meeting reports: (1) 14th Coordination Meeting of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program Network; (2) Colloquium on the "Myth, Power and Profit" of International Organized Crime; (3) Towards a European Strategy to Prevent Organized Crime; (4) Expert Meeting on Violence Against Women; and (5) EU-Russian Federation Conference on Organized Crime. In addition, it provides information concerning the 10th United Nations Congress; work on the draft United Nations Convention Against Transnational Crime; new publications; 2000 HEUNI (European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control) scholarships; staff news; upcoming meetings; and "grey literature" -- unprinted source material that is generally inaccessible through normal bibliographical searchers. A special feature is an article on "The UN's Global Gatherings on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice: Some Basic Maxims."