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“Stand Up For Someone’s Human Rights, today, tomorrow, everyday”: UNMISS Human Rights Chief Fun and flair were the order of the day as scores of people gathered for the launch of the ‘Stand Up For Someone’s Rights Today’…
UN rehabilitation of police post will strengthen security in conflict-ridden Boma A run-down police post in the troubled region of Boma is to be renovated by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan to help strengthen law…
Amid worsening security and the dire humanitarian and human rights situation in South Sudan, the head of United Nations peacekeeping operations on Tuesday called on the international community to demand that the country's…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterrs welcomed the establishment Monday of the UN Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH), following the closure of its predecessor peacekeeping mission. “MINUJUSTH reflects…
Meeting the Palestinian Prime Minister today, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, and discussed the implementation of the intra-Palestinian agreement signed in the…
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Zahir Tanin, welcomed the new MSU Carabinieri Regiment Commander, Colonel Marco Di Stefano, to UNMIK Headquarters in Pristina. Col Di Stefano and SRSG…
In 2006, under Security Council Resolution 1701, UNIFIL witnessed a substantial increase in its troops and responsibilities across its area of operations between the Litani River and the Blue Line. Monitoring the cessation of…
Women and their children looking for valuables in a trash dump in Kinshasa. Photo Radio Okapi /John Bompengo GENEVA (16 October 2017) – The world’s poor are at disproportionate risk of torture, arrest, early death and…
Photo by Amin Ismail, UNAMID. On 12 October 2017, UNAMID Human Rights Section, in collaboration with the Office of the General Prosecutor for Darfur Crimes, concluded a two-day workshop on the role of transitional and…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today commended the first responders and residents of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, for mobilizing to aid in what is being called Somalia's worst-ever bomb attack. In a…
The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide has strongly condemned provocation of ethnic and religious hatred armed groups and politicians in the Central African Republic and impressed the need for urgent…