News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
Beirut, Lebanon Thursday, 24 November 2011 The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon ad interim, Robert Watkins, met today with the President of the Lebanese Republic, H.E. General Michel Sleiman. Mr. Watkins briefed…
Sierra Leone maps out Strategies to implement UPR recommendations at the UPR National Conference Organized by the Human Rights Commission and the Government of Sierra Leone with the support of UNIPSIL Human Rights Section and…
KABUL - The 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence is an international campaign that runs from 25 November, International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women, through 10 December, International Human Rights Day…
25 November 2011 - Representatives of the United Nations (UN) peace missions in West Africa will hold their twenty-second high-level consultation in Dakar in order to facilitate the coordination of the action of the UN…
Allow me, Mr. Chairman, at the outset, to thank the National Justice, Peace and Human Rights Commission (NJPC) for the laudable initiative in organizing this timely conference. We also appreciate the opportunity to take part…
KABUL - This week’s feature examines day-to-day problems faced by families who return to Afghanistan after years spent living in refugee camps outside the country. Through interviews with Afghan residents, as well as United…
NEW YORK - Violence against women and girls takes many forms and is widespread throughout the globe. It includes rape, domestic violence, harassment at work, abuse in school, female genital mutilation and sexual violence in…
23 November 2011 – Top United Nations officials today called for engaging all of society, and especially young people, to end violence against women, a scourge that spans the globe and takes many forms, including rape…
KABUL - There is a long way to go before the rights of Afghan women are fully protected, says a United Nations report released today, noting that the Government has not yet succeeded in applying a two-year-old landmark law to…
Issues of peace and security in centre of a Seminar UNOCA/Libreville, October 9, 2011 . At the initiative of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) , Special Representatives of the Secretary General of…
State contribution to the functioning of the Committee on Security Issues: Sao Tome seeks the support of UNOCA UNOCA/Libreville (Gabon) – 1 November 2011 –The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the…