News from our Missions
Abuja, 22 July 2011 - This week UN Women and the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) are training women leaders to strengthen their mediation capacities in peacebuilding processes to prioritize women’s specific…
Abuja, 22 July 2011 - This week UN Women and the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) are training women leaders to strengthen their mediation capacities in peacebuilding processes to prioritize women’s specific…
ASTANA, Kazakhstan - SRSG Jenča traveled to Astana, Kazakhstan, on 22 July, for meetings with Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov and other senior Kazakhs officials. Discussions touched upon the current political and…
UNIPSIL Human Rights Section and the Human Rights Commission hosted a meeting to discuss the Universal Periodic Review process, emphasizing the need for strategic advocacy to engage government and stakeholders for…
UNIPSIL Human Rights Section provides training on Sexual and Gender Based Violence for Paramount Chiefs from the Eastern province and training on Human Rights Based Approach to Development for Councilors from the Western…
KABUL - Staffan de Mistura, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, today met at their request with key women members of the Wolesi Jirga or the lower house of the Afghan Parliament…
Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday, 03 December 2008 United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams welcomed Lebanon’s signing today of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo. The Convention, agreed at a…
Nairobi, 20 July 2011 - The United Nations declared today that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somalipopulation – 3.7 million people…
New York, le 19 juillet 2011 - The Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack today on the residence in Conakry of President Alpha Condé of Guinea. He stresses that no disagreements or differences justify recourse to…
Bujumbura, July 14, 2011_Belgium has donated 7 million euros (9.8 million U. S. dollars) to Burundi in support for the East African country's education, the government said on Thursday. A cooperation agreement was signed on…