On March 8 another International Women's Day was celebrated in Guinea-Bissau, under the slogan "50/50 by 2030: Promotion of equality between men and women" with various initiatives to recall the struggle of Bissau-Guinean women, their difficulties and achievements throughout the decades in the struggle for rights and equal opportunities.
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In Guinea-Bissau women are the bread winners
In Guinea-Bissau women represent 51 percent of the population but are still underrepresented in the political sphere. However they are more often victims of human rights violations: early and forced marriage, domestic…
April 7, 2016 (Menu / News / Media / Radio) - April usually marks the beginning of the harvest and marketing of cashew nuts that since 1976 has become the largest export product for Guinea-Bissau, taking especially in recent years, a very significant weight in the economy.
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Cashew nut central to Guinea-Bissau economy: a blessing or a curse?
Currently, 180,000 of the 200,000 tons produced in 2011 were exported, bringing the State an income of 156 million euros. About 85 percent of the population depends on cashew nuts, and it is no coincidence that cashew farms…
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Twenty-seventh High-Level meeting of Heads of UN peacekeeping missions in West Africa
Final Communiqué At the invitation of Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), the heads of UN peacekeeping…
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Meeting of the High Political Committee of the West African Coast Initiative-WACI- in support to the ECOWAS Regional Action Plan for the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime in West Africa
WACI is a joint project implemented by the United Nations and Interpol in collaboration with ECOWAS. Participants • Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa and Chairman…
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International Human Rights Day: 50 years defending our rights and freedoms
The Government of Guinea-Bissau, in cooperation with UNIOGBIS, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and civil society organizations, have been promoting “15 days of activism for Human Rights” in Guinea-Bissau…
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Security Council extends UN Guinea-Bissau office for another year
The United Nations Security Council today extended the mandate of the UN Integrated Peace-Building Office in Guinea-Bissau, known as UNIOGBIS, for an additional 12 months so that it can continue to assist the country in its…
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V Annual Forum on Criminal Justice: looking for consensus on the reforms
The Government of Guinea-Bissau, under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice, and in partnership with the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau, organizes the Fifth National Forum on Criminal…
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Record number of signatures expected for climate change agreement on 22 April
A record number of countries are expected to sign the historic climate agreement adopted last December in Paris at a signing ceremony hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 22 April. More than 130 countries…
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Joint Communiqué - ECOWAS, CPLP, United Nations, European Union and African Union
A group of five international partners of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, - ECOWAS, CPLP, United Nations, European Union and African Union, - met today at the African Union Liaison Office in Bissau, to review the latest…
A two-day meeting on 27-28 April – No mistida i estabilidade - will be held at the national parliament building in Bissau, with a view to promoting a reflection to support Guinea-Bissau entities in the search for a national consensus around stability.
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UNIOGBIS Promotes Two-day Talks on Stability
The United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau-UNIOGBIS- supports and organizes the meeting with the collaboration of civil society organizations and international facilitators. The talks will bring…
Partnership Framework between the Government of Guinea-Bissau and the United Nations team for the period 2016-2020 will be signed on April 28, Thursday at 09:00 in the government palace by the UN Secretary general's Special Representative for Peacebuilding in Guinea-Bissau, Miguel Trovoada and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Artur Silva.
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Guinea-Bissau and the United Nations Sign new Partnership Framework
In this new partnership framework, the Government and the United Nations have agreed to focus on four key areas of intervention: The State institutions, including defense, security, and justice, consolidate the stability and…
Guinea-Bissau and the United Nations have signed today a Partnership Framework for the period 2016-2020. Both signatories, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the country, Miguel Trovoada, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Artur Silva, praised the long-standing relationship between the UN and Guinea-Bissau.
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UN, Guinea-Bissau sign $340 million new Partnership Framework
In this new partnership framework worth $340 million, the Government and the United Nations have agreed to focus on four key areas of intervention: The State institutions, including defense, security, and justice, consolidate…