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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 Energy, Florentino Mendes Pereira, and attended by the Special…

The National Refugee Commission ensures that the country is committed to regularizing the refugee situation, following the commitment made at the high-level meeting held in Geneva in 2011. "We are currently working on the local integration program for refugees and one of our concerns is the…

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 Heads of State on June 4 in Monrovia, Liberia's capital, the member states…

This year, the theme "Family Planning: Empowering People, Developing Nations" was chosen to draw attention to the fact that around 225 million women worldwide who wish to avoid pregnancy are not using safe and secure family planning methods. The reasons range from lack of access to information or…

It was from this perspective that the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau, on 19 July 2007, established the Organizing Commission of the National Conference. The work of this Commission that has consulted thousands across the country on a possible reconciliation mechanism was strongly…

"I finish my mission today, I am encouraged by the conversations I had with all the different actors and, above all, with today’s second round of negotiations facilitated by the Association of Guinean Women for Mediation and Facilitation of the political crisis. I believe that it is an important…

The training, given by CNE's senior technicians and financed entirely by UNIOGBIS, addressed issues such as electoral management and electoral bodies, voter registration, litigation and offense in the electoral register and the Bissau-Guinean electoral system. Welcoming the initiative, SRSG Modibo…

David McLachlan-Karr, explained that UNDP financed this project with a view to equip the CNE with regional structures that would be able to safely host the logistical resources of the electoral operations and to allow the reduction of the costs related to the rental of private houses. The Deputy…

The five international organizations represented in Bissau, including the AU, ECOWAS, CPLP, the European Union and the United Nations, reported in a communiqueé issued on 17 August, that they met "in Bissau on Wednesday 2 August and on Friday 4 August 2017 to assess the current political situation…

This is the view of citizens in the regions outside the capital the country, especially Buba and Bafatá, in relation to another UN Secretary-General's Semiannual Report on the situation in Guinea-Bissau and the implementation of UNIOGBIS mandate in this country, which the Special Representative of…

Only by fulfilling the minimum conditions of the Conakry Agreement could Guinea-Bissau make progress towards breaking its years-long political crisis, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative told the Security Council today, calling for better coordinated, sustained international involvement…

The pledge was made at the end of the meeting to promote women's political participation in the process of inclusive dialogue and protection of human rights, which took place between 30 and 31 August in Bafatá. The meeting was promoted by the Committee of Women Parliamentarians of Guinea-Bissau in…