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KANDAHAR - An open-air theatre performance tackling the serious issue of children recruitment took place in Kandahar this week to help inform children of their rights. The UNAMA-supported event -- the second in a series of 10…
JE: Thank you very much, we just finished a meeting with the ISSG task force on humanitarian access to Syria, we reviewed and compared progress this year compared to last year. 2015 did, in the first three months give us…
30 March 2016 – The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for another year, warning that the humanitarian situation remains of great concern…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Lisa M. Buttenheim of the United States as Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support, Department of Field Support. The Secretary-General is…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed today's announcement of the launching of peace talks between the Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN), following the signing of an agreement…
UN Envoy for Libya, Martin Kobler, welcomes arrival of Presidency Council in Tripoli, urges peaceful and orderly handover of power. 30 March 2016 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General Martin Kobler strongly…
Intercommunity violence in Bouna: A joint UNOCI/Ivorian Government delegation went to the area to inquire about the situation (Bouna, March 2016)
On 28 March 2016, UNAMID’s Civil Affairs Section, Sector East, handed over a peace centre to the Ma'alia Native Administration in Abu Karinka, East Darfur, in the presence of the locality commissioner, the Deputy Nazir…
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Thirty-seven journalists from the Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle regions of Somalia completed a two-day training this week on promoting peace and reconciliation in Somalia. The workshop organized by the United Nations Assistance…
Today, the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Martin Schulz, visited the CMP anthropological laboratory and met with CMP Members and the Committee’s Greek and Turkish Cypriot scientists. President Schulz was briefed by…
Intercommunity violence in Bouna: UNOCI deploys peacekeepers from its Quick Reaction Force in the town in support of efforts by national authorities to protect the civilian population (Bouna, March 2016)