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UNAMID launches Network for Survivors of Sexual Violence in the Greater Jebel Mara area of Darfur
Photo by Amin Ismail, UNAMID. On 10 December, the Women Protection Advisory Unit of the Human Rights Section (HRS) launched a Network for Survivors of Sexual Violence in the Greater Jebel Mara area of Darfur. The launch, held…
Radio programming can play crucial role in ending gender-based violence in Northern-Bahr-el-Ghazal
Radio stations can play a vital role in raising awareness on and preventing gender-based violence of any kind, including early and forced marriages. Communities of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal have been sensitized on how to report…
Central African women and girls march for peaceful elections
Hundreds of women peacefully marched through the main streets of the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui today to demand for inclusive, violence-free elections. “All we want is peace,” sang the participants who donned…
Women take the lead in colorful medal ceremony honouring Rwanda’s peacekeepers in Malakal
Lieutenant Chanate Mutagawa receives her UN medal at a ceremony in Malakal. In recent times, Rwanda has been at the forefront of gender equality on all fronts. That peacekeeping is no exception became clear for all to see as…
UNMISS peacekeepers hand over educational material and sports equipment to university in Wau
Bangladeshi peacekeepers handing over much-needed school material and sports equipment to the Catholic University in Wau. Bangladeshi peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan have recently handed…
UNMISS donates motorbikes to South Sudan national police services
This motorbike, still wrapped in plastic, and nine others will help police in Jonglei do a better job. The South Sudan National Police Services in Greater Jonglei have received ten motorbikes from the United Nations Mission…
UNMISS hands over motorbikes to South Sudan national police services
This motorbike, still wrapped in plastic, and nine others will help police in Jonglei do a better job. The South Sudan National Police Services in Greater Jonglei have received ten motorbikes from the United Nations Mission…
UN Protection of Civilians site in Bor becomes a conventional camp for displaced people
Some seven years after the outbreak of civil war in 2013, the Protection of Civilians site in Bor, South Sudan, has been re-designated as a conventional camp for Internally Displaced Persons. When fierce fighting broke out in…
Sector East HQs organize training on public information
UNIFIL’s Sector East Headquarters organized a training on public information, encompassing various aspects of news production as well as media relations, for UNIFIL and Lebanese Army troops in its base in Ibil al-Saqi last…
'Silence the guns' in the CAR
It was with a rallying cry to ‘silence the guns’ that the project for the “Voluntary surrender of weapons and ammunition held by the population” was officially launched in the Central African Republic (CAR) by Head of State…