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UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 254

Thirty officers serving with the South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) in Gogrial have benefited from an intensive training session to sharpen their criminal investigative skills and improve their understanding of child protection and human rights law. The two-day training workshop was…

Human rights messages will echo more loudly if organisations speak collectively, UNMIK’s human rights partners learned in a joint training. More than 30 Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) from throughout Kosovo gathered for a two-day training in the multi-cultural city of Prizren on October 21…

Cultural heritage and cultural properties have been destroyed, looted and trafficked throughout history, particularly during conflict and post-conflict situations. Armed forces around the world play a key role in preserving and safeguarding cultural property in time of war and conflict and women’s…

Côte d’Ivoire’s Delegate Stresses Support of African Members for Lifting Sanctions The ranking United Nations official in the Central African Republic appealed to the Security Council today to renew the mandate of the Organization’s peacekeeping mission in that country with a focus on elections…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of David McLachlan-Karr of Australia as his Deputy Special Representative in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), where he will also serve as United…

South Sudanese women are calling for political leaders to meet their commitment to ensuring 35 percent representation in the new transitional government and are urging each other to actively participate in the peace process to protect their collective interests. That call came during a ‘women to…

Several days of torrential rains have left wide swaths of Greater Jonglei devastated and its inhabitants both flabbergasted and displaced. With more precipitation on the forecasted horizon, there are fears that the situation may deteriorate further. “The people are in dire need of humanitarian…

“Our better lives do not lie in machine guns.” Those were the words of Rachael Amuor Pach, the Jonglei Minister for Gender, Child and Social Welfare, at the conclusion of a special women’s forum for reconciliation and peace in Bor, hosted by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. The Minister…

Women leaders of Jubek area are ramping up efforts to make their 35 per cent political representation stipulated in the September 2018 revitalized peace agreement materialize. These efforts were announced at a forum organized by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, as a follow-up to a…

Asked if she wants to be the president of South Sudan when she grows up, 12-year-old Rebecca Aman Chan, a student at the Asementi Primary School gazes into the mid-distance, pondering this exciting thought experiment. “Yes, I can be the president,” she beams, and rightfully so. In its quest to…

‘‘Living together before and after the crisis in Central African Republic’’ was the main theme of a Youth Peace Forum organized by MINUSCA at Birao Hospital on 29 October 2019 for about 100 youths. The event was, among others, honored by the presence of Vakaga Prefect, Leonard Mbele, Birao Head of…