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UNMISS fills know-how gaps among prison officers to address human rights issues
Senior South Sudanese prison officers received certificates after a week-long training on human rights, sexual gender-based violence and community policing. You are a prison officer and an inmate is trying to escape. What can…
UNMISS supports training for a child-free SPLA
Last month more than 200 child soldiers were released in Pibor. SPLA has recommitted to make its army child-free. Senior officers in the South Sudanese army (SPLA) have been meeting in Juba with a view to getting removed from…
UNIFIL donation to new LAF tactical centre in Tyre
Maj. Gen. Michael Beary, UNIFIL Commander, and Brig. Gen. Robert El Alam, representing the LAF Commander, open the LAF Liasion Tactical Operations Center (TOC) in LAF Tyre barracks. UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander…
Indian peacekeepers defy icy conditions to keep peace
Life cannot go business-as-usual during the difficult winter season due to icy conditions in some parts of UNIFIL’s area of operation in south-eastern Lebanon. But for UNIFIL’s undaunted Indian peacekeepers, despite the harsh…
MINUSCA: PREVENTION OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE ALSO STARTS IN THE CLASSROOM
The United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) paid a visit to a high school in Bangui in January to inform students on how the UN works to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse by its…
As relevant as ever, UN Charter is ‘our living template’ for tackling global challenges – Guterres
The Principles outlined in the United Nations Charter remain the foundations of international relations and global harmony at a time when conflicts have come more complex, new threats and challenges have emerged and impacts…
UN chief ‘deeply alarmed’ by escalating hostilities in Syria’s east Ghouta
Deeply alarmed by the escalating violence in Syria’s east Ghouta, the United Nations has reiterated a call for an end to hostilities so that the sick and wounded can be immediately evacuated and humanitarian aid deliveries…
‘There is no plan B,’ says Guterres, reiterating UN’s commitment to two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
After over a century of hostilities including 50 years of continued military occupation, Israelis and Palestinians are still no closer to peace, a United Nations special envoy said on Tuesday, warning that even as many in the…
Civilian situation in Syria’s east Ghouta ‘spiraling out of control,’ warns UN aid official
The humanitarian situation of civilians in Syria’s east Ghouta is spiraling out of control, a senior United Nation aid official has warned in the wake of escalating conflict which resulted in more than 40 civilian deaths on…
Korean nuclear crisis, Middle East quagmire eroding global security, UN chief tells Munich summit
A nuclear threat on the Korean Peninsula and a quagmire in the Middle East are “two qualitative changes” that further eroded global security over the past year, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told an annual…