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DRC: Women gaining access to senior positions locally thanks to MONUSCO-backed stabilization project. In the Ruzizi plain, South Kivu province, a hundred women and young people have benefited, for two and a half years, from a…
Female officers in Torit feel empowered and ready for leadership roles after lots of training workshops. Female officers of the organized forces in Torit are benefitting from the rapid empowerment through weekly capacity…
8 March 2020 - UN Mission women joined their peers of the local community in Bria (East) to celebrate the International Women Day. A great march went from the local hospital to the townhall, under songs promoting peace in the…
Birao, 7 March 2017. The women of Birao celebrated the International women’s day, amid the ongoing crisis. Coming from various associations, they participated in the march past, characterized by entertainment, speeches and…
Happy International Women’s Day to all. A special congratulations to women peacekeepers at UNIFIL, military and civilian. International Women’s Day is an occasion to take stock of progress made and contemplate on how to face…
A nine-member UN delegation led by Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari today concluded a weeklong visit to Lebanon and the UNIFIL area of operations, as part of an assessment of UNIFIL’s resources. During the visit, ASG…
Hundreds of civilians have been displaced by intercommunal fighting in different areas of Jonglei. UN peacekeepers have been deployed in a number of recently conflict-ridden areas in Jonglei, including Pibor, Gumuruk…
The Zambian contingent of MINUSCA has been conducting robust and aggressive both foot and motorised joint patrols with the Central African Republic Army (FACA) and Security Forces (FSI) in Birao town. Arising from the fragile…
UNIFIL Chinese Medical Company handed over 20 varieties of medicines to the Ibil al-Saqi Municipality last week following request that the village dispensary was facing “acute shortage” of certain drugs. On 26 February, the…
Nicosia, 05 March 2020 – Following the decision to temporarily close four crossing points along the buffer zone, UNFICYP is concerned by the ongoing disruption caused to people on both sides. While the UN supports all…
Positive developments in South Sudan have “moved the country further along the road to sustainable peace”, the top UN official there told Security Council members on Wednesday. The world’s youngest nation has been mired in…
On 04 March 2020, MINURSO organized a ceremony celebrating, in advance, the International Women's Day celebrated every year on the 8th of March. A female military parade was organized on the occasion that was attended by the…