The first session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations (UN) Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity, held in New York from 19 to 30 ...

As State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin noted earlier, Russia's work in the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment "is being blocked by the ...

Russia has begun the process of withdrawing from the European Convention on the Prevention of Torture. Source: Radio Liberty, cited by European Pravda Details: Russian ruler Vladimir Putin submitted a ...

In the second world war Raphael Lemkin lost his whole family. After this he left no stone unturned to make genocide a punishable offence. It was then in December 1948 the UN recognised it as a crime.

The African Union Advisory Board Against Corruption (AUABC) will lead the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption ...

The 1970 Convention was thus submitted to the 16th session of the General Conference of the Organization in 1970 and adopted on the14th of November that year. This Convention has made UNESCO a pioneer ...

UNESCO MGIEP is looking for 50 dynamic young people from around the world, and across multiple sectors, who are committed to building a more peaceful and sustainable world, to participate in TAGe ...

Details: Russian ruler Vladimir Putin submitted a draft bill to the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian parliament) to denounce the convention, which aims to prevent torture and inhuman or ...