News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Geneva, 1 October 2010 - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released Friday a 550-page report listing 617 of the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law over a ten-year period by both…

Kinshasa/Geneva, 29 September 2010 – A high-level panel, convened by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, will meet with and hear directly from victims of sexual violence in the DRC. Through interactive dialogue, survivors…

Kinshasa, 28 September 2010 - Margot Wallstrom is in the Democratic Republic of Congo for a working visit from 28 September to 6 October 2010. This is a follow up to her previous mission to the country in April 2010; and also…

Kinshasa, 24 September 2010 - The United Nations publishes the preliminary report of a special inquiry into mass rapes and other human rights violations committed between 30 July and 2 August during attacks by armed groups in…

Mbandaka, 23 September 2010 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the DRC during a working visit to the administrative town of Equateur province urged to ponder for a while and make an assessment of the…

Mbandaka, 21 September 2010 - Seventy-five officers from the Congolese National Police (PNC)'s Mobile Intervention Group are undergoing training of modern techniques for maintaining and restoring public order. The 10-day…

Kinshasa, 21 September 2010 – The entire world celebrated the UN International Peace Day 2010, dedicated to cease-fire and non-violence every year. The year 2010's theme, 'Youth for Peace and Development' also coincides with…

Kinshasa, 20 September 2010 - Ms Olamide Adedeji, Director of MONUSCO office in Ituri and Director a. i. Public Information division, died yesterday in Kinshasa. Mrs Adedeji was 60 years old. She joined the Mission in 2004 as…

Bunia, 11 September 2010 - Lieutenant-General Chander Prakash, new MONUSCO Force Commander visited Ituri for the first time from 7 to 9 September last to see for himself how the security situation is evolving in that part of…

Kinshasa, 14 September 2010 – While the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) is continuing its effort to reduce violence in eastern DRC, its is also focusing on the stabilisation and peace…

16 September 2010 - As part of the Quick Impact Project (QIP), MONUSCO Guatemalan Special Forces contingent undertook the construction of detention facilities for females in Bunia. The initiative was in response to a request…

16 September 2010 - From 30 August to 10 September, 60 journalists and media managers from North and South Kivu province took part in a workshop held respectively in Bukavu and in Goma to reinforce their capacities on media…