Informes

23 - 30 July 2004 A. GENERAL SITUATION Highlights NTGL Chair and representatives of former warring factions to meet in Accra NTGL Chairman Gyude Bryant and signatories of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) of 18 August traveled to Accra, Ghana on 28 July…

Context Since the re-commencement of the disarmament, demobilisation, rehabilitation and reintegration programme in mid April 2004, just over 48,000 combatants have been disarmed by the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)1. This brings the total number of disarmed to 51,000 since…

The Human Rights Committee today considered how the Central African Republic implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the absence of a report. Thierry Maleyombo, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Good Governance…

Geneva, 21 July 2004 Dear Colleagues, After fourteen years of civil war the growth and development of Liberia is presently non-existent and the country remains in a state of stagnation. Approximately 85% of the physical infrastructure has been…

Rwanda Overview The challenge that confronted Rwanda in 1994 was truly extraordinary. Thirty-two years of state divisionism, eight years of economic collapse, four years of conflict and three months of savage genocide had left one million people dead, a collapsed…

SC/8151 Security Council 5005th Meeting (AM) In a public meeting of the Security Council today on its recent mission to West Africa, speakers, including from seven countries in the subregion, stressed that the continued investment of United Nations’ peacekeeping…

60% OF APPEAL NEEDS REMAIN UNMET TO DATEFUNDS URGENTLY NEEDED TO... - Open Access to Basic Education for 375,000 Children (6-10 years) who have never been to school. - Reduce U5 deaths due to malaria by providing insecticide-treated…

2 - 9 July 2004 A. GENERAL SITUATION Highlights OCHA formally integrates with UNMIL As of 1 July 2004, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) formally integrated with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to provide requisite humanitarian coordination…

Underscoring the vital importance of Africa's women for economic development, fighting HIV/AIDS and achieving peace, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has lambasted the use of sexual and gender-based violence as a weapon of war in the continent's conflicts. "Every effort…

S/2004/536 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1537 (2004) of 30 March 2004, by which the Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) for an…