News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
BADAKHSHAN - United Nations-supported local agricultural projects that encourage women to engage in collective farming are changing the lives of hundreds of women in the north-eastern Afghan province of Badakhshan, according…
More than 1 billion of us live with disabilities. We must remove all barriers that affect the inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in society, including through changing attitudes that fuel stigma and…
Tripoli, 2 December 2013 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) hosted on 30 November the second consultative meeting of Libyan forces and activists. The meeting was convened in Al-Waddan Hotel, Tripoli. This…
Mogadishu – UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia Nicholas Kay paid tribute today to Somalia’s outgoing Prime Minister, Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid, and noted the responsible role played by the Federal…
KABUL - Since starting work at Kabul University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Dr. Abdul Sharif Azizyar has made an impact. He teaches post-graduate classes at the Faculty, trains future teaches and has helped develop the Faculty’s…
27 November, Tripoli - UNESCO and the United Nations Electoral Support Team, with the support of Libya’s High National Elections Commission, will organize workshops to provide quality basic training to media professionals…
KABUL - United Nations agencies today joined Afghan health authorities at a ceremony in the capital, Kabul, to highlight the issue of HIV/AIDS and measures to control its infection rate in Afghanistan, where open discussion…
Mogadishu - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, has expressed his deep concern at the recent outbreak of violence in the northern region of Sool."Violence cannot and will not resolve…
KABUL - I have learned with deep regret of the death of nine Afghan aid workers in two separate attacks in recent days.On 26 November, three Afghans working for a village development project in southern Uruzgan Province were…
On 29 November 2013, the Heads of the United Nations (UN) Peace Mission in West Africa held their twenty-fifth high-level consultation in Dakar in order to review progress in the coordination of the activities of the United…
On 29 November 2013, the Heads of the United Nations (UN) Peace Mission in West Africa held their twenty-fifth high-level consultation in Dakar in order to review progress in the coordination of the activities of the United…
Mary Robinson (centre right), Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, is greeted by children during her visit to Kiwanja, North Kivu Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 29…