Timor-Leste election an exercise in democracy
Over the weekend the citizens of Timor-Leste took to the polls to vote for a new president. Results so far show incumbent Jose Ramos-Horta will not be among candidates for a run-off scheduled for April.
Over the weekend the citizens of Timor-Leste took to the polls to vote for a new president. Results so far show incumbent Jose Ramos-Horta will not be among candidates for a run-off scheduled for April.
A top UN official has drawn attention to the current situation in Syria, one year after peaceful protests began.
The International Opium Convention, signed on 23 January 1912 at The Hague, was the first international drug control treaty and is the core of the international drug control system.
The Joint UN and Arab League Special Envoy on Syria is sending a technical team to Damascus Sunday to continue talks and negotiations he began with the government there.
The people of the Southeast Asian nation of Timor Leste are voting in their third presidential election since the country gained its independence 10 years ago.
For the first time, the Timorese are managing the entire electoral process with the UN playing a supporting role.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging governments to consider setting up a new global arrangement that integrates environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development.
Thirty years ago the Manila Declaration on the peaceful settlement of international disputes was adopted by the UN. Still, with all the conflict in the world today, the Philippine Ambassador says it remains relevant.
More than five million people die as a result of smoking tobacco each year, according to a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO).
In Hargeisa, the capital city of Somaliland, women do not have an easy life.
Violence, sexual abuses and violations of rights are a daily routine in the lives of many of them.
Actress and Goodwill Ambassador Ashley Judd came to the UN to discuss her life and her book “All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir”. In it she opens up about emotional and sexual abuse she endured as a child and what led to her work as a humanitarian activist fighting human trafficking.