Law and Crime Prevention

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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.

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.

Rural produce can boost urban nutrition. Fruit vendors unloading pumpkins at the market in Maradi, Niger.
FAO/Giulio Napolitano

In crisis-torn Sahel, UN anti-drugs and crime agency helps bolster justice system

1 March 2018
Africa

Africa’s vast Sahel – plagued by humanitarian crises, armed conflict and terrorism – is now witnessing improvements in its criminal justice system thanks to a special programme by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which assists Governments in the region to come together to fight corruption, and human and drug trafficking.

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.

Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), during the Security Council on the situation in Sudan and South Sudan.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

ICC Prosecutor asks Security Council to act on outstanding arrest warrants

12 December 2017
Africa

Omar Al Bashir recently travelled to countries that recognize the International Criminal Court (ICC) but none arrested or surrendered the Sudanese President, the ICC Prosecutor today told the United Nations Security Council.

CICIG Commissioner Iván Velásquez.
CICIG

Guterres 'shocked' by Guatemala's decision to expel UN anti-corruption official

27 August 2017
Americas

Secretary-General António Guterres is shocked to learn that the President of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, has issued a statement declaring 'persona non grata' the head of a United Nations-backed independent anti-corruption commission, according to the UN Spokesman.

Former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo in the ICC courtroom during the delivery of his sentence on 21 June 2016.
ICC-CPI

ICC sentences former Congolese vice-president Bemba to 18 years in prison for war crimes

21 June 2016
Africa

The International Criminal Court (ICC) today sentenced the former Congolese Vice-President, Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, to 18 years of imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Central African Republic between October 2002 and March 2003.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
UN Photo/Amanda Voisard (file)

UN welcomes ICC's first conviction for rape as war crime

22 March 2016
Africa

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the judgement issued by the International Criminal Court in the case of former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba.