News from our Missions
The Peace Conference for Political Party Presidents in Zambia ahead of the general elections scheduled for the 12 August and co-convened by the Zambia Centre for Inter-Party Dialogue (ZCID) and the Church Mother Bodies (CMBs)…
GENEVA (26 January 2022) – Haiti’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Monday, 31 January 2022 in a meeting that will be…
INFORMATION NOTE Joint UNOWAS-ECOWAS Mission To Burkina Faso Dakar, 29 January 2022 -The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat…
On 8 September, the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) held an open session to commemorate the 2021 Africa Amnesty Month. In his opening remarks, the AUPSC Chair for the month of September, also Permanent…
The United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security held its twentieth consultative meeting via virtual platform on 5 November. The meeting reviewed the status of the partnership between the United Nations…
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres and AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat welcomed the continuing strong cooperation between the two Organizations on 2 December at the UN headquarters in New York. The…
On 27 November, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Tetteh attended the Luanda Biennial – Pan African Forum for the Culture of Peace organised in partnership between UNESCO, the Government of Angola and…
Kismayo – The work of a committed teacher is to inspire and help students develop through education, with the ultimate goal of becoming productive members of society. It could be argued that people convicted of crimes and…
New York, 27 January 2022. The members of the Security Council reiterated their full and unanimous support for the peace process in Colombia. They echoed the Secretary-General’s observation that the commemorations of the…
On 11 November, UNOAU participated in the UN Peacebuilding Commission (UNPBC) and the AUPSC fourth Joint Annual Consultative meeting. The meeting was chaired by the Permanent Representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt to…
From 9 to 10 November, the Third Women Leaders Forum for Africa’s transformation was convened by the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) in a virtual format. The Forum built on the previous two Forums and the Network's…
New York, 28 January 2022 In a few days, our human family will come together in Beijing for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The top athletes from around the world have a date with history, in a spirit of mutual…