Law and Crime Prevention

A girl passes a ball during a drill at basketball training session in Mogadishu, Somalia in 2013. Banned under the extremist group Al Shabaab, basketball is once again making a resurgence in Mogadishu.
UN Photo/Tobin Jones

With fair play, tolerance and team spirit, sport can score for peace and development, say UN officials

9 April 2018
Global

The United Nations can make its voice heard on the power of sport in promoting both peace and development, a senior UN official said Monday, urging participants at a special Headquarters event to “bring out our inner sports fans,” and harness sport as a force for positive change.

Photo: UNODC
UNODC

UN launches global network of judges to strengthen integrity in courts

9 April 2018
Global

The United Nations on Monday launched an initiative to connect judges around the world so that they can learn from each other about ways to strengthen integrity in courts, such as by preventing corruption and undue political interference into judicial appointments and decisions.

Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) addresses the 61st session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
UNODC

UN anti-drug conference offers ‘opportunity to chart a better and balanced path’ forward – UN chief

12 March 2018
Global

Inclusive partnerships are essential to addressing drug challenges and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to the top United Nations panel dealing with all aspects of narcotic drugs.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

UN rights chief denounces ‘unacceptable’ charges of terrorism by Philippine’s Duterte against UN expert

9 March 2018
Asia Pacific

Flinging terrorism charges at a United Nations human rights expert is just one act in a litany of profane and inflammatory comments made by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte against the rapporteur, prompting the UN rights chief to questions the leader’s mental stability.

Signing Ceremony for Treaty on Maritime Boundaries between Timor-Leste and Australia
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Sea boundaries treaty by Australia and Timor-Leste ‘example to follow’ – UN chief

6 March 2018
Asia Pacific

Australia and Timor-Leste on Tuesday signed a bilateral maritime boundaries treaty, which United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres hailed as a ground-breaking event that could inspire other countries to peacefully settle disputes through mediation.

Women in line to vote during the 5 April 2014 elections in Afghanistan. Photo: UNAMA/Zachary Golestani
UNAMA/Zachary Golestani

Afghanistan: UN mission welcomes new penal code, urges measures to protect women from violence

22 February 2018
Middle East

While welcoming the entry to force of a new Penal Code in Afghanistan as a having the “potential to trigger real change,” the United Nations mission in the country said on Thursday that it is concerned by the removal of the chapter penalizing violence against women.

Permanent headquarters of the International Criminal Court at The Hague. (file)
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

ICC to open separate initial examinations of Philippines ‘war on drugs;’ Venezuela protests

8 February 2018
Global

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Thursday that she will open preliminary examinations into the so-called “war on drugs” campaign launched by the Government of the Philippines and, separately analyze alleged crimes committed by Venezuela related to the demonstrations and ongoing political unrest there.