Law and Crime Prevention

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), at UN News studios in New York on 24 September 2018.
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'Humanity cries for justice', ICC President says, underscoring importance of Criminal Court

24 September 2018
Global

Amidst a flurry of high-level events at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) underscored in an interview with UN News that “humanity cries for justice,” and that “no country can do it alone.”

Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and US President Donald Trump (right) at a High-level Event on Counter Narcotics, convened by the United States, at UN Headquarters in New York, on 24 September 2018.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Global spotlight on world drug problem ‘is personal’ for many families, says UN chief

24 September 2018
Global

The United Nations focused a global spotlight on the world-wide drug problem during a high-level counter-narcotics event on Monday in which Secretary-General António Guterres flagged that this “is personal.” 

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

Pervasive corruption costs $2.6 trillion; disproportionately affects ‘poor and vulnerable’ says UN chief

10 September 2018
Global

Corruption is present in all countries, “rich and poor, North and South, developed and developing,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Monday, at a session on tackling corruption for the sake of peace and international security.

Caregiver attends to abandoned albino toddler in Goma, DRC.
UN Photo/Marie Frechon

Albinism: UN official welcomes latest developments in ‘landmark’ Malawi murder case

5 September 2018
Africa

The top United Nations representative in Malawi is urging the Government to promptly prosecute those allegedly responsible for the death of a young man with albinism whose butchered body was found earlier this year.