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Program Description The Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) supports the ongoing peace process in Burundi as outlined in the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement (APRA) by strengthening local capacities to benefit from and contribute to the peace process. PADCO, Inc., the…

Program Description The Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) helps stabilize and revitalize war-torn communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by facilitating community-level reintegration of war-affected youth and increasing broad awareness of key transition issues. OTI's objectives are achieved…

Introduction : Répression et impunité au Togo Depuis le 5 février 2005, date du coup d'état visant à placer au pouvoir Faure Gnassingbé et maintenir le régime en place, le peuple togolais vit dans une situation d'oppression. La Ligue togolaise des…

Hold Ivorian Authorities, Liberian Accomplices Accountable for Recruitment in Liberia (New York, March 31, 2005) -- The government of Côte d'Ivoire has recruited hundreds of recently demobilized combatants in Liberia, including scores of children under 18, to fight alongside Ivorian government…

Background Liberians interviewed by Human Rights Watch in towns and villages close to the Ivorian border described two periods of intense recruitment: in October, just prior to an Ivorian government offensive against the rebel-held north, and in the beginning of…

S/RES/1592 (2005) The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions and the statements by its President concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular resolution 1565 of 1 October 2004, and the statement of 2 March 2005 (S/PRST/2005/10), Reaffirming its commitment to…

SC/8347 Security Council 5155th Meeting* (AM) The Security Council this morning extended the mandate of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) until 1 October 2005. Unanimously adopting resolution 1592 (2005) under Chapter VII of…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS As it approaches the end of its second year, the Congo's transition risks breaking apart on the unreconciled ambitions of the former civil war belligerents. Inability to resolve political differences in Kinshasa have been mirrored by…

SC/8348 Security Council 5156th Meeting (AM) Main Themes Include Strengthening UN Cooperation With African Organizations, Addressing Root Causes of Conflict There had been a steady increase in peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace-building efforts in Africa since 1998 and African issues currently…

March 19-29, 2005 A. General Situation Highlights 1. UN warns Liberia at risk of sliding backwards 2. Twenty-five arrested over petrol bomb attack on UN peacekeepers. 3. Consultative Meeting for the Revision of the RFTF held in Harper 4. UNHCR Takes New Approach to Tackle Sexual…