The government of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ratified this UN Convention on on the status of refugees on May 16, 1989.

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Since 2008, the UN Human Rights Council has been working on a declaration related to the right to peace. The Council has established an Open-Ended Working Group, which is refining the draft declaration. This paper discusses the relationship between the right to health and the right to life in peace; we argue that peace and the conditions that support peace are essential to realize the right to ...

The government of Hungary ratified this UN Convention and Protocol on refugee status on March 14, 1989; the government of Mozambique ratified the Protocol on May 1, 1989.

The government of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ratified this UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness on May 16, 1989.

Discrimination and inequality shape women's experiences of drug use and in the drug trade and the impact of drug control efforts on them, with disproportionate burdens faced by poor and otherwise marginalized women. In recent years, UN member states and UN drug control and human rights entities have recognized this issue and made commitments to integrate a 'gender perspective' into drug control...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have had a profound influence on the way the world understands and grapples with development issues. Initially formulated as a means of monitoring progress towards the goals and targets of a series of UN conferences, the MDGs, and their associated targets and indicators have morphed into interventions in their own right, shaping the meaning of development...