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Photo by Hamid Abdulsalam, UNAMID. UNAMID’s Communications and Public Information (CPIS) and Governance and Community Stabilization Sections (GCSS), in partnership with the Darfur state authorities, this week launched a two-week Community Engagement Awareness Campaign (CEAC) in internally displaced…

Fill in the UN Global survey to help shape UN’s vision for future! It only takes one minute to complete! To mark its 75th anniversary, the United Nations has launched a global conversation on the role of international cooperation in building the future we want. To ensure that everyone’s voice across…

In line with UNIFIL’s efforts to assist the host population in our common fight against COVID-19 Coronavirus in south Lebanon, UNIFIL troop contributing countries have been taking initiatives aimed at providing communities with medical equipment and other supplies available at our disposal. In the…

BY THE DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS From teaming up with some of the world’s best-known football stars and popular local musicians, to launching a direct messaging campaign with Whatsapp, the United Nations is joining forces with new partners to share vital information about coronavirus…

Preventing the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has dominated the MINUSCA agenda for weeks and will continue in the next. Its regional office consequently answered the Birao sub-prefect’s call to take action and co-ordinate efforts on putting in place preventive measures against COVID-19…

Even as UN peacekeepers adapt to the challenges posed by the coronavirus, they continue to perform their vital peace and security tasks while helping to stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Peacekeeping operations must be able to continue their critical work and to maintain operational…

Mine clearance Il y a des dizaines d’années, des millions de mines terrestres étaient enterrées un peu partout dans le monde. Du Cambodge au Mozambique et de l’Angola à l’Afghanistan, des milliers de vies ont été fauchées ou bouleversées à cause d’un simple faux pas. Au début des années 1990, l…

Decades ago, millions of landmines were buried in countries across the world. From Cambodia to Mozambique, in Angola and in Afghanistan, thousands of lives were lost, with others altered forever because of one unlucky step. The outcry by civil society in the early 1990s drove the multilateral system…

Jean-Pierre Lacroix This op-ed was initially published in French in Le Monde on 02 April 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic is also developing in countries marred by armed conflict. In an op-ed featured in Le Monde, the head of United Nations Peacekeeping, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, underlines the role UN…

2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. The Secretary-General has launched the “UN75” initiative for people everywhere to share their thoughts around current and emerging global trends, and to have a conversation with as many people as possible to spark ideas for building the future…

Ensuring food assistance and information is available in local languages were some of the main points raised during an UNMIK-supported debate show on how COVID-19 is impacting Kosovo’s most marginalised. ‘Poor and facing the virus’ was the subject of the second in a series of Coronavirus-related…

Women working in the field of demining are rare. Zeina Saleh of the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in south Lebanon is amongst those very few women working under extremely risky conditions. In November 2019, Zeina, along with six other young women working for UNMAS around the globe, received the UN…