News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

15 April 2015 - Bissau-Guinean women are still facing many obstacles to achieve gender equality in Guinea-Bissau. Despite being more than half of the population, and although after last elections there was a slight increase of the number of women elected in the Parliament -14 over 102-, women…

21 April 2015 – The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, Miguel Trovoada, met President José Mário Vaz for a “routine” visit and to brief him on the parliament’s request for support to the national reconciliation process and constitutional reform. At the…

22 April 2015 - The history of Guinea-Bissau has been marked by instability, human rights violations and fragile institutions. Gun ownership in the hands of civilians has been one of the causes and consequence of that instability. To try to put an end to this situation, the Guinean authorities with…

24 April 2015 - The President of Guinea-Bissau Configuration Group and Vice-President of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, António Patriota visited Guinea-Bissau from 20 to 21 April, to convey to the national authorities the trust that the international community in placing on the country. He…

UNIOGBIS and the Bissau-Guinean union of journalists organized a film screening and debate to mark World Press Freedom Day. The event took place at the Lusófona University with the participation of hundreds of students from the first class of journalism in the country, professional journalists and…

8 May 2015 – SRSG Miguel Trovoada attended today in Dakar, Senegal, the 27th high-level consultation meeting of the Heads of the UN Peace Missions in West Africa at the invitation of Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the UN SG for West Africa and Head of UNOWA.The objective of this…

18 May 2015 – SRSG Miguel Trovoada witnessed today in the Parliament the swearing-in ceremony of the 32 members of the Commission for the National Conference on Reconciliation, marking its official revival.The ceremony was chaired by the Speaker of the National Popular Assembly (ANP, Portuguese…

22 May 2015 - The International Biodiversity Day on 22 May was commemorated this year under the theme "Biodiversity for Sustainable Development". "Any sustainable development framework must provide the enabling conditions for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity," said the United…

29 May 2015 - The latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Guinea-Bissau took place in Geneva this year in January, with 151 recommendations adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council to improve the situation of human rights in the country. The responses of the government are expected by…

03 June 2015 - In reaction to the launch of 2015 State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) Report, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (SRSG) for Guinea-Bissau, Miguel Trovoada, said Wednesday in Bissau that political stability is essential for development.…

12 June 2015 - The National Blood Service of the National Hospital Simão Mendes is facing difficulties of blood there is no blood stock in cases of emergency and people are afraid to give or for lack information or for cultural reasons. On World Day of Voluntary Blood Donor to be celebrated this…

This week the Guinea-Bissau popular National Assembly approved the Law on Military Discipline by majority of votes- over 60-, but suspended the debate on the draft law of the Code of Military Justice, on the grounds that MPs need to conduct a deeper analysis.