- This Week in DPPA
This Week in DPPA: 7 - 13 March 2026
A brief roundup of United Nations-related political and peacebuilding events and developments globally. USG DiCarlo on the situation in Lebanon: “Further escalation benefits no one” On 11 March, Under-Secretary-General…
© WFP / Alfredo Zúniga
- Crisis
- Special Coordinator
United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon briefs the Security Council
“Initial hopes that Lebanon would be spared from the fires burning across the region were dashed when Hizbullah launched an attack against Israel in the early hours of 2 March. In doing so, it spread the embers that have now…
Secretary-General António Guterres (centre left) and Under Secretary-General for UN Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix (far right), meet with Rodolphe Haykal (centre right), Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, during their visit to Lebanon. UNIFIL/Haidar Fahs
- Political Solutions to Conflict
- UNIFIL
In Beirut, Guterres demands end to Middle East war and pays tribute to injured peacekeepers
The UN Secretary-General on Saturday called on the international community to intensify support for the Government and people of Lebanon, warning that the south of the country “risks being turned into a wasteland.” Speaking…
Training a deminer at the mock minefield, at Mine Action Training Center in Omdurman, Khartoum state
UNMAS/JASMAR
Japan Supports Life-Saving Mine Action and Risk Education Efforts in Sudan
Port Sudan / Cairo – March 2026 – The Government of Japan has contributed US$173,333 to support an ongoing initiative led by the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) to protect civilians from explosive hazards and…
UN peacekeepers consult a map at an operations centre in Deir Kifa, Lebanon. © French Army/Basile Pineau
- Protecting Civilians (POC)
Lebanon: Peacekeepers concerned over ceasefire violations on all sides
The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon ( UNIFIL) says it’s seriously concerned over the Israeli demand for civilians to evacuate from their homes to north of the Litani river. The mission also observed new rounds of rockets…
There had been no active court in Bentiu since war broke out in South Sudan, and the start of a mobile court is seen as an important development that will reestablish justice and rule of law in Bentiu. Photo: UNMISS
- UNMISS
- Justice and Corrections Institutions
Justice on the move: Mobile courts offer hope for communities in South Sudan
Travelling more than 200 kilometres (124 miles) from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in southwestern South Sudan, a team...
Smoke rises in Beirut, Lebanon, following the outbreak of hostilities across the Middle East. Photo: UN Photo/Pasqual Gorriz
- Political Solutions to Conflict
- UNIFIL
Lebanon ‘dragged back into turmoil’, UN envoy warns
Lebanon has been “dragged back into a state of turmoil and violence”, the UN’s top envoy in the country warned on Saturday, after the latest round of regional strikes triggered a fast‑escalating crisis along the Blue Line…
In Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a police officer from Tanzania serving with MONUSCO holds an awareness session with the Congolese National Police to train women leaders on preventing sexual violence, strengthening referrals with judicial police, and promoting formal reporting over inf
- Women, Peace and Security (WPS)
- International Women's Day
5 ways UN peacekeeping supports women's access to justice and their rights
This year’s commemoration of International Women’s Day calls us to examine the structural barriers to equal justice: discriminatory laws, weak legal protections, harmful practices, and social norms that erode the rights of…
Speech of the SRSG – 20th Anniversary of the General Inspectorate of Finance
Prime Minister, Minister of Economy and Finance, Minister of National Education and Vocational Training, Director General of the IGF, Director General of the UCREF, Excellencies, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Ladies and…
Visit of the Designated Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti Mr. William G. O’Neill
Good afternoon and thank you for being here. I have just returned from a 10-day visit to Haiti to assess the human rights situation in the country. I saw glimmers of hope: some territory liberated from gang control, a…
UNIFIL peacekeepers on patrol along the Blue Line in southern Lebanon. Photo: © UNIFIL
- Peacekeeping
- UNIFIL
UN peacekeeping patrols suspended along Lebanon-Israel Blue Line
UN peacekeepers temporarily suspended patrols and other activities along parts of the ‘Blue Line’ in southern Lebanon after the Israeli military said it would release what it described as a non-toxic chemical substance near…
MINUSCA troops survey Central African Republic’s open border with Sudan. Villagers move back and forth freely – by foot, on the back of a donkey, or with cattle. Armed men cross, too. Photo: UN News/Alban Mendes de Leon
- Protecting vulnerable populations
- MINUSCA
At the edge of war: the Central African Republic's uneasy border with Sudan
By Alban Mendes de Leon and Fabrice Robinet The land flattens on the approach to Birao, a cut-off town ringed by savannah in the far north of the Central African Republic, where roads dissolve into dust and motorcycles vastly…