DPPA
Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs

News from our Missions

Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.

 

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URUZGAN - On Sunday, hundreds of protestors forcibly closed a voter registration centre in the Gizab district of central Uruzgan province. Up to 600 demonstrators took to the streets in the district at 9am, chanting slogans…
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BAMYAN - Bamyan Governor Dr Habiba Sarabi was among the recipients of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award. The award, named after a President of the Philippines who died in 1957 in a plane crash honour people and groups from…