NEW YORK - Upon taking up my duties as Secretary-General in January of this year, my very first act was to issue an appeal for peace -- a call on citizens, governments and leaders everywhere to put peace first. The…
The Report was discussed and analyzed today at the Government Palace in Bissau in a meeting on international recommendations on human rights made to Guinea-Bissau. The meeting, was presided over by the Minister of State for…
KUNDUZ - The advocacy role of young Afghans in working with government to fight corruption, promote women’s equality and bring about sustainable peace was the focus of a radio debate in the northern province of Kunduz this…
Nairobi - A High-Level Partnership Mission consisting of representatives mainly from Arab states has concluded a six-day fact-finding mission to drought-affected populations in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. The delegation…
Mogadishu - The Federal Government of Somalia has reiterated its commitment to unify the country to achieve lasting peace and stability. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the National Reconciliation Conference held in…
Facatativa, June 12, 2017. This Monday, 305 members of the FARC-EP took a new step in their process of reintegration into civilian life upon receiving the certificate of the laying down of individual weapons by the General…
Identical initiatives have been carried out by civil society organizations, women, and religious and youth, all of them engaged in the effort to end the persistent political-institutional crisis. At the last meeting of ECOWAS…
A three-day seminar on "The role of journalists and the media in preventing violence, including violent extremism in West Africa and the Sahel", organized by the United Nations Office for West Africa And the Sahel (UNOWAS)…
MAZAR-E-SHARIF - Communities across Afghanistan must find ways to live in peace with each other, said participants at a UN-backed debate in the northern province of Balkh last week. Some 30 representatives from Balkh’s…
KABUL - The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomes Under-Secretary-General Ján Kubiš to Kabul today at the start of his two-day visit to the Afghan capital in the interest of completing a Security Council…
In line with the statement issued following the meeting of the Secretary-General with the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mr. Mustafa Akıncı, and the Greek Cypriot leader, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, in New York on 4 June, and following…
Bogota, 8 June 2017. Yesterday, the timeline for the laying down of arms process, agreed between the National Government and the FARC-EP on 29 May, was complied with in the 19 Transitional Local Zones for Normalization (TLZN)…