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UNMISS organizes program on human rights awareness and peace building in Rumbek
In order to understand the similarities between human rights and peace, the UNMISS Civil Affairs Division in partnership with the mission’s Human Rights Division, organized an awareness meeting with community leaders to…
UNMISS Torit Marks International Peace Day with “Sports for Peace and Health Checks for local community during week long commemoration”
UNMISS ended a week of commemorating the International Day of Peace with a few activities. Events included a free mobile clinic conducted by the UNMISS Rwanbatt medical team for the community living in the area near its…
The Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, on 23 September 2016 met US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland in New York. Mr. Eide described the meeting as: "a very inspiring discussion…
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HERAT - Achieving gender parity, especially in education, is one of the most crucial tools in the fight against radicalization and extremism, said participants at a UN-backed ‘Global Open Days’ event in the provincial capital…
A team of six UNSOS Military Engineers of the UK Contingent (UK-70) arrived in Baidoa last week for a week-long training exercise that ended today. During their time there, the team trained engineers of AMISOM’s Sector 3…
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On 21 September 2016, UNAMID, in collaboration with the Centre for Peace and Development Studies and Human Rights, University of El Fasher, held a one-day conference on peace and peaceful co-existence under the theme “No life…
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Somali women have launched an ‘All Women’s Campaign’ in a national effort to achieve a 30 per cent quota of seats in both houses of the country’s next federal parliament. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud presided over…
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The Secretary-General condemns the multiple airstrikes by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition on 21 September in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, Yemen, which killed and injured dozens of people, including children and women…
Murle- Dinka leaders resolve to end child abduction and cattle raids
The top leadership of Jonglei and Boma states together with paramount Chiefs agreed to end cattle raiding and child abduction after their final peace consultative meetings in Bor on 20 th Sept 2016. In attendance were…
UNMISS celebrates International Day of Peace with the communities of Jiir and Amongpiny in Rumbek
Hundreds turned out to celebrate the 2016 International Day of Peace with the communities of Jiir and Amongpiny, two communities have had cycles of intercommunal conflict for the past eight years, in Rumbek. The event was…
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GENEVA (22 September 2016) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday issued a strong warning about the deteriorating situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and insisted that, as…
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Khartoum, 22 September 2016- The United Nations welcomes the release yesterday by the Government of Sudan of twenty one children allegedly associated with armed groups. These children, who have been in the custody of the…