News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned yesterday’s attack at a police checkpoint near a mosque in the outskirts of Lahore.

UNMISS welcomes renewal of peacekeeping mandate by UN Security Council The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has welcomed the decision by the United Nations Security Council to renew its peacekeeping mandate until 15 March 2019 with the passing of Resolution 2406. Since the outbreak of…

Dozens of children have been killed since fighting began in the north-western Syrian town of Afrin, where people are under bombardment, hospitals have been shut down and water supplies cut off, the United Nations has reported.

The United Nations mediator for the Syrian conflict said Friday that a brief ceasefire in Douma in Eastern Ghouta is the only piece of good news for the Middle Eastern country, noting increased violence there.

Gender mainstreaming is crucial everywhere, 24/7. Bor at sunset is no exception. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has appealed to parliamentarians in the country to emphasise gender perspectives and women’s rights in the formulation of laws and all legislative forums. “The…

South Sudanese boys who are in conflict with the law will no longer have to share prison space with adult inmates after ground was broken for the construction of a Juvenile Reformatory Centre in the capital, Juba. “Children in conflict with the law need rehabilitation not punishment,” said Moustapha…

13 March 2018, Monrovia - UNMIL Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Political and Rule of Law, Mr. Waldemar Vrey on behalf of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) handed over a Case Progression and tracking database for the use of the County Attorney’s office(…

The United Nations mediator for the Syrian conflict told the Security Council on Friday that its three-week old demand for a ceasefire across the war-ravaged country was still not being implemented, and while progress had been made in in Douma in Eastern Ghouta, “the bottom line is, too many…

16 March 2018 - Having been informed on the plans to amend the Criminal Code of Kosovo, members of the Security and Gender Group (SGG), as of October 2017, were engaged in preparing and submitting comments and recommendations for amendments to the Criminal Code. We express our concern that the…

Not all roads lead to Rome. This one, robustly rehabilitated by the UN Mission, goes through Torit in Eastern Equatoria. For the past month, graders, excavators, dump trucks and other heavy machinery have been humming and whirring throughout Torit in eastern South Sudan. They have been doing so with…

Inspector Upendo Musa Kazumba directing a medal parade ceremony in Malakal. It is probably as good as directing drivers through chaotic traffic. Growing up, Upendo Musa Kazumba always wanted to be a uniformed officer of the law – a traffic officer to be precise. Today she is part of a team of…

During a heated debate in the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, the United Kingdom said that it was “highly likely” that Russia was behind an attack using a deadly nerve-agent, which has left a Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, hospitalized in critical condition.