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(Extracted from JRS Dispatches No. 127) Twice monthly news bulletin from the Jesuit Refugee Service International Office REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS BURUNDI: INSTABILITY MOUNTS Instability in Burundi has grown steadily since the second week of January, JRS Great Lakes reports. The main Hutu armed…

HR/4648 Hears Address by High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA, 3 March (UN Information Service) -- The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its sixty-second session at the Palais des Nations by hearing an address by the United…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, wrapped up a three-day trip to Burundi with a strong appeal to all parties to press ahead with the regional peace process and to exert every effort…

Humanitarian Activities 1. UN Human Right High Commissioner visits Burundi Mr Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, visited Burundi (28 February-1 March). Mr Vieira de Mello officially launched the Kirundi edition of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement…

General Situation Life goes on in Abidjan, with various political, civic and religious actors daily calling for, either, calm and compromise, or a rejection of the programme to include the rebels in the government. Humanitarian Consequences UNHCR opened a new centre…

Burundi - Nations Unies - Droits de l'homme (Bujumbura,le 1er Mars )- Le chef d'Etat burundais, M. Pierre Buyoya a reçu vendredi en audience dans son cabinet le haut commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme, M. Sergio Vieira…

Representatives of countries concerned about the situation in Liberia have issued a statement urging ceasefire talks between the country's Government and the rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD). Voicing "serious concern" about the conflict following a meeting in New…

1 March 2003 - UNICEF regional director for West and Central Africa, Rima Salah and Côte d'Ivoire country representative, Georgette Aithnard, have held talks with the main Ivoirian rebel group, the Movement Patriotic de Cote d'Ivoire (MPCI) during which…

AFR/568, HR/4647 FREETOWN, 28 February (Office of Special Representative) - At the conclusion of a week-long visit to Sierra Leone (22-28 February), Under-Secretary-General Olara A. Otunnu, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, has called upon the…

United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Transition Initiatives Program Description Program Goals and Objectives USAID/OTI's goal in Burundi is to promote good governance and the active and informed participation of citizens. To work towards this…