Law and Crime Prevention

Abandoned buildings at the Barclay training center in downtown Monrovia, a notorious meeting point for drug dealers and users. Here, a suspect is identified and searched for drugs and weapons. (2008)
UNMIL Photo/Christopher Herwig

Crime and drugs in West and Central Africa: Security Council highlights 'new alarming trends’

19 December 2018
Africa

West and Central Africa faces “disruptive and destabilising” new trends regarding drug trafficking, drug use and other crimes, according to Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), who briefed the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

A scene from inside a women's prison, Haiti, October 2018.
MINUJUSTH/Leonora Baumann

Haiti: ‘Laden with challenges’ but also hope, Mission chief tells Security Council

12 December 2018
Americas

Haiti is “laden with challenges, but also hope”, the head of the UN Mission in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday, against the backdrop of on-going political unrest in the Caribbean country.

Judge Theodor Meron, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, briefs the Security Council.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

UN should be ‘exemplary’ in defending judicial independence, top Judge tells Security Council

11 December 2018
Global

The United Nations should be a role model when it comes to repelling attempts to weaken the rule of law and undermine independent judiciaries around the world, a senior UN judge told the Security Council on Tuesday.

Anti-corruption sign in Namibia.
World Bank/Philip Schuler

The costs of corruption: values, economic development under assault, trillions lost, says Guterres

9 December 2018
Global

Every year, trillions of dollars - equivalent to more than five percent of global GDP - are paid in bribes or stolen through corruption, the United Nations reported on the International Day which serves to highlight the pervasive crime, marked this Sunday.