News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

New York, 19 April 2015 - The Secretary-General is shocked and deeply saddened by reports that a ship carrying as many as 700 migrants and refugees has capsized off the Libyan coast. This tragedy is just the latest in a line of incidents in the last week, in which hundreds of other migrants and…

21 April 2015 – A meeting of representatives of Libyan women groups and women activists, in the framework of the political dialogue with the aim of ending the conflict in the country, commenced Tuesday 21 April 2015 in Tunis, Tunisia. The two-day meeting of Libyan Women dialogue track is facilitated…

21 April 2015 - Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Bernardino Leon, strongly condemns the terrorist bombing against the Spanish Embassy in Tripoli. The bombing is the latest in a series of attacks on diplomatic…

23 April 2015 - Representatives of Libyan women groups and women activists, from diverse backgrounds representing all areas of Libya, concluded a two-day meeting in the framework of the political dialogue with the aim of ending the conflict in the country. The Libyan Women dialogue track meeting…

Zarzis, Tunisia, 21 April 2015 – UNICEF launched ‘Together for Children’, a national campaign with municipalities in Libya.The Campaign aims at providing psychosocial support for the internally displaced children, the establishment of child friendly spaces, the prevention of school dropouts, the…

Enabled through UNESCO’s Regional Programmes that promote an enabling environment for freedom of expression, on Thursday 23 April 2015, twenty-six Libyan journalists celebrated their completion of an intensive communication and English skills training course at the British Council in Tunis to build…

New York, 24 April 2015 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Ali H. Al-Za’tari of Jordan as his new Deputy Special Representative and Deputy Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), where he will also serve as United Nations Resident…

28 April 2015 - Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bernardino Leon will be briefing the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday 29 April in closed consultations on the latest developments regarding the Libyan dialogue process and the challenges facing Libya. An updated text of the…

29 April 2015 - Earlier this week, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) circulated a draft proposal for a political agreement in Libya. In a letter addressed to the dialogue participants, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Bernardino Leon explained that the…

29 April 2015 - I have just briefed the Security Council on the situation in Libya. First of all ... this chaos is what explains dramas as the ones we have seen recently: death in the Mediterranean Sea, hundreds of migrants traveling to south Italy and other countries, the killing in the south of…

JOINT MESSAGE FROM BAN KI-MOON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS, IRINA BOKOVA, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNESCO AND ZEID RA’AD AL HUSSEIN, UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY. 03 May 2015

05 April 2015 - With a view to the global World Press Freedom Day theme for 2015, Let Journalism Thrive towards Better Reporting, Gender Equality, & Media Safety in the Digital Age, UNESCO Tripoli Project Office, in partnership with the Women Empowerment Section of the United Nations Support Mission…