KABUL - Ambassador Peter Wittig, Germany’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Chair of the UN Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict; and of the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999)…

6 June 2011 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, today highlighted the contribution of seven Bissau-Guinean Police officers who served for one year with the United Nations…

According to the most recent country-wide needs assessment, 2.4 million people, one in three Somalis, are in need of humanitarian assistance, a 20 percent increase in the number of vulnerable compared to the second half of…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Participants from nineteen countries and the European Union, international and regional organizations, financial institutions, business and academia arrived in Ashgabat for a two-day meeting to…

Kampala, 02 June 2011 [Opening Remarks]

5 June 2011 – Dozens of young people today picked up trash in Bamyan city to mark World Environment Day and to draw attention to the importance of nature in the sustainable development of Afghanistan. The Afghan National…

5 June 2011 - A United Nations Security Council delegation is in Kabul this week to see first hand the effect of the armed conflict on Afghan children. The visit comes one month before the Security Council will debate a new…

5 June 2011 - Local journalists in Bamyan officially inaugurated the media centre where for more than a year they have been sharing information and report on behalf of their news agencies and media organizations. Speaking at…

2 June 2011 – The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) facilitated a humanitarian regional coordination meeting this week in Kunduz on the response of the UN, the Government and its partners…

5 June 2011 - Nearly 20 years after the 1992 Earth Summit, the world is once again on the road to Rio – the site of the June 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Much has changed in the past two decades…

On 3 May 2011, the Somali Government presented its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report for consideration by the Human Rights Council (HRC), in Geneva, a major achievement in terms of the TFG's engagement with…

The 19th meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia (ICG) was held under the chairmanship of the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Augustine P. Mahiga, from 2 to 3 June…