Law and Crime Prevention

An historic building in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, is lit up as part of a campaign by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in November 2019.
UN Kyrgyzstan

Guterres regrets death in Kyrgyzstan, calls for dialogue to end violence

6 October 2020
Asia Pacific

The UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday that he was “closely monitoring” the situation in the Kyrgyz Republic, where protests erupted a day earlier in the aftermath of Sunday’s parliamentary elections.

A displaced family leaves a UN protection camp in Juba to return to their home in the Jonglei region of South Sudan
UN Photo/Isaac Billy

Starvation used as weapon of war in South Sudan conflict, UN rights body finds

6 October 2020
Africa

Starvation is being intentionally used as a war tactic in South Sudan’s brutal conflict, a UN-backed human rights panel said on Tuesday, releasing its latest report on the country. 

Boys walk through Benghazi Old Town in Libya.
OCHA/Giles Clarke

Put peace in Libya first, UN chief urges summit on war-shattered nation 

5 October 2020
Africa

A “rare opportunity” for peace in Libya should be seized by all those involved directly or indirectly in the conflict, António Guterres said on Monday, at a High-Level virtual meeting convened to end the fighting. 

Students at a 'peace school' in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are being supported by the ICC's Trust Fund for Victims assistance programme.
Trust Fund for Victims

Deterring ‘atrocious crimes’ contributes to development: International Criminal Court President

1 October 2020

Deterring genocides, armed conflicts and other atrocious crimes supports sustainable development says the President of the UN-backed International Criminal Court (ICC) Chile Eboe-Osuji.

Victims of the Ebola disease have been buried at Kitatumba cemetery in the Butembo in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. (August 2019)
UN Photo/Martine Perret

WHO, IOM and UNICEF promise investigation of sexual abuse allegations against workers in DR Congo

29 September 2020

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, promised that any of its staff working as part of the agency’s Ebola response team in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) found to have been involved in sexual exploitation and abuse, would face “serious consequences, including instant dismissal.”

UNCTAD’s Economic Development in Africa Report 2020 states that illicit financial flows rob Africa of $89 billion each year.
Unsplash/Jason Leung

Illicit capital robbing Africa and its people of their future: UN trade and development chief

28 September 2020
Africa

Every year, an estimated $88.6 billion, which is equivalent to 3.7% of Africa’s GDP, leaves the continent in the form of illicit capital, according to UN trade and development agency UNCTAD’s Economic Development in Africa Report 2020, launched on Monday.

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

Corruption and tax-dodging ‘rampant’, urgent reforms needed: UN panel

24 September 2020
Global

Tax abuse, money laundering and corruption, plague the global financial system, a high-level UN panel reported on Thursday, launching an interim report that underscores the need for urgent reforms to achieve the 2030 Global Goals (SDGs).

The UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand, Gita Sabharwal (centre background) joins a patrol on the Mekong River.
© UNODC

Fighting drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle: a UN Resident Coordinator blog

20 September 2020
Asia Pacific

Drug trafficking has long been a problem in the Golden Triangle, the region where Thailand’s Chiang Rai province meets Myanmar and Laos. In this blog, Gita Sabharwal, UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand, and Jeremy Douglas, who represents the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, explain how the United Nations and the Thai government are working together to tackle the issue.

This family fled violence in Venezuela and moved to Cucuta, Colombia. File photo (April 2019).
©UNICEF/Arcos

Venezuela abuses amounted to crimes against humanity: UN-appointed panel

16 September 2020

Grave rights violations against anti-government protesters in Venezuela, “amounted to crimes against humanity”, UN-appointed rights investigators said in their first report on abuses inside the Latin American nation.

People walking in Mehran, Ilam Province, Iran.
Unsplash/Mostafa Meraji

Iran: ‘Secret execution’ of champion wrestler ‘deeply disturbing’ – UN rights experts

14 September 2020
Asia Pacific

A group of five independent UN human rights experts have strongly condemned the summary execution in Iran on Saturday of a former champion wrestler convicted of murdering a security guard during anti-government protests in 2018.