Law and Crime Prevention

Prof. Yuji Iwasawa (center) is one of the five new members of the International Court of Justice, elected by the General Assembly on 22 June 2018.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Japanese law professor elected new judge at the International Court of Justice

22 June 2018
Global

An international law professor from Japan has been elected to serve with the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, following the resignation of a sitting judge, earlier this month.

A family climbs out of their destroyed home to flee minutes after an ISIS suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle on the street outside their home in the Al Andalus neighbourhood of Mosul, Iraq.
UNHCR/Ivor Prickett

First-ever global conference of national counter-terrorism chiefs will strengthen cooperation, build ‘resilient’ States, says top UN official

21 June 2018
Global

Heads of counter-terrorism agencies from across the world will be meeting at UN Headquarters in New York next week for the first time, to pool expertise, resources and ideas to fight back against the growing scourge of international terrorism.

Former Congolese Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo. (file)
Photo: ICC-CPI

ICC Appeals Chamber acquits former Congolese Vice President Bemba from war crimes charges

8 June 2018
Africa

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC), on Friday, decided to acquit Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, former Vice President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and head of a rebel group in the country, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Migrants lie on mattresses inside a detention centre, located in Libya. (file)
UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi

As Security Council imposes sanctions on six human traffickers in Libya, UN chief calls for more accountability

8 June 2018
Africa

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called for more accountability for human traffickers in Libya, after the UN Security Council on Thursday added six individuals accused of leading smuggling and trafficking networks in the country, to its Sanctions List.

Theodor Meron, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, briefs the Security Council.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

UN court fully assumes remaining functions of tribunals for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, officials tell Security Council

6 June 2018
Global

Despite challenges and resource constraints, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals is operating without the support of its two predecessors – criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda – and has thus assumed the full scope of their residual functions, the legal body’s President told the Security Council on Wednesday.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development acknowledges the importance of sports for social progress as well as an important enabler of sustainable development.
UNIC Tokyo/Takashi Okano

Weeding corruption out of sport an investment in development: UN crime-fighting agency

5 June 2018
Global

Sports scandals, including allegations of endemic corruption and the involvement of organized crime, threaten to undermine the sector’s potential to contribute to peace and global development, a senior United Nations official said on Tuesday