Rapports

Highlights As of 26 November 2014, according to the Government of Sierra Leone, the cumulative number of laboratory confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases is 5,595. The number of confirmed deaths is 1,429 and 956 have been…

Highlights Province Orientale: Raids and ambushes by suspected FRPI militia in South Irumu continue. In addition to extortion and looting house-hold goods, more than 100 rapes and 25 killings have been reported during the last 2 months.…

From 11 to 21 November 2014, I conducted a country visit to Niger in my capacity as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences. I would firstly like to…

The training room at the MONUSCO headquarters was used as the venue for the awareness-raising session organised on 14 November 2014 by the UN Mission’s Police component (UNPOL)/Kalemie for some twenty female officers of the Congolese…

17 November 2014: Teenage pregnancies are on the rise in West Africa, as girls forced to stay out of school due to Ebola become more vulnerable to sexual exploitation, sexual assault and rape. With schools closed and…

KAILAHUN/DAKAR, 20 November 2014 (IRIN) - Of the hundreds of children in Sierra Leone who have lost parents to Ebola, the vast majority have lost both their mother and their father. Among them is eight-year-old Lamin Borbor,…

Universal Children's Day 20 November 2014 – Twenty-five years after the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), ratified by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1990, Child Soldiers International…

posted on NOVEMBER 18, 2014 by MERVEILLE On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Merveille, a young reporter, shares her meeting with young girls victims of violence:…

Le Comité contre la torture a examiné, hier matin et cet après-midi, le rapport du Burundi sur les mesures prises par le pays en application des dispositions de la Convention contre la torture et autres peines…

SC/11635 At its 50th meeting, on 19 September 2014, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the examination of the fifth report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict…