"ORGANIZED CRIME"

General Assembly adopts resolutions aimed at ensuring global access to eye care, combating illicit trafficking in wildlife, highlighting links with 2030 Agenda.

General Assembly adopts resolutions aimed at ensuring global access to eye care, combating illicit trafficking in wildlife, highlighting links with 2030 Agenda.

Speakers stress need to address root causes of terrorism, violent extremism amidst fallout from pandemic, as General Assembly continues debate on global strategy.

Security Council renews mandate of United Nations Disengagement Observer Force for six months, renews sanctions on Democratic Republic of the Congo, sets 5 November as election date to fill International Court of Justice vacancy, renews mandate of Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. Senior peacekeeping official warns Security Council of chronic divisive rhetoric, genocide denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Stressing no country is exempt from corruption, speakers in General Assembly call for greater collaboration to tackle menace, as special session continues.

Stressing no country is exempt from corruption, speakers in General Assembly call for greater collaboration to tackle menace, as special session continues.

Speakers hail late Chad President’s role in securing stability at home, fighting extremism abroad, as General Assembly honours Idriss Déby Itno.

The General Assembly holds a high-level debate on “Urban Safety, Security and Good Governance: Making Crime Prevention a Priority for All”.

The General Assembly holds a high-level debate on “Urban Safety, Security and Good Governance: Making Crime Prevention a Priority for All”.

The 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice – held in a hybrid format amid pandemic restrictions – opened in Kyoto on Sunday with calls for renewing global cooperation against crime to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and recover from the pandemic. UNIS VIENNA