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Committee on the Rights of the Child ROUNDUP Issues Conclusions on Reports of France, Sweden, Mauritania, Slovenia, Bangladesh, Niger, Romania and Oman The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its fifty-first session, adopting its report and…

SC/9676 AFR/1858 The following Security Council press statement on Burundi was read out today by Council President Baki =DDlkin ( Turkey): The members of the Security Council commend the advances in the Burundian peace process, in particular the disarmament of the Forces Nationales…

By Andrei Engstrand-Neacsu in Nairobi Superstition has led to the killing of more than 60 albinos in Burundi and Tanzania. The Red Cross Red Crescent is backing government efforts to protect them, and defends their right to a life in…

Peacebuilding Commission Third session Sierra Leone configuration 10 June 2009 1. The Governments of Sierra Leone and Canada co-chaired a Peacebuilding Commission High-level Special Session on Sierra Leone. The meeting brought together senior representatives of the member States, the United Nations and civil…

The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, issued the following statement on the preliminary findings of her official visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo today: "The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights…

Contexte L'insécurité qui s'était installée dans les territoires de Kalehe et de Shabunda dans la province du Sud-Kivu, s'est maintenant étendue également aux territoires de Kabare et Walungu, dans la région à la lisière du Parc National de Kahuzi-Biega. Depuis…

Dans ce numéro - Le Centre d'Information et de Ressources Documentaires officiellement lancé - Le personnel du bureau de la représentation de l'OMS au Mali à l'école de la grippe A ( H1 N1 ) - Célébration de la Journée…

By Sulaiman Momodu & J. Wesley Washington Designated by the UN General Assembly in 2002, the International Day ofUN Peacekeepers observed on 29 May is the date in 1948 when the first UN peacekeeping mission, the UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO),…

Executive Summary Purpose Physicians for Human Rights and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (PHR/HHI) set out to conduct a systematic assessment of sexual assault and other human rights violations suffered by Darfuri women who had been subjected to sexual violence in the…

Man, le 28 mai 2009...L'Opération de Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) a apporté son appui à l'ONG Génération Femmes du 3e millénaire (GFM 3) dans la réalisation d'un projet de reconversion d'une soixantaine d'exciseuses de la région des…