Rapports

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour called today for a "dual track" approach to impunity targeting perpetrators as much as victims of abuses in Africa's Great Lakes region. Responding to questions at a Headquarters press conference on her…

PBC/13 Peacebuilding Commission High-Level Briefing AM Meeting Strengthening Rule of Law, Combating Impunity Main Challenges as Country Seeks to Make Fresh Start Burundi had a real opportunity to make a fresh start, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour,…

UNIOSIL/PIO | PR 42 Freetown, Sierra Leone, 28 May 2007 - UNIOSIL, in collaboration with UNDP, UNIFEM and UNICEF will be holding a sensitization workshop to strengthen the capacity of middle career officers in the Republic of Sierra Leone armed…

21 - 27 May 2007 Highlights - CERF-funded seed rice distribution to end in early June - MSF-Holland ceases operations in Liberia - Common Humanitarian Action Plan 2007 receives 15.9% of funding to date 1. Assessments / Missions / Emergency Responses Update on UN Central…

ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES Food security: To support its programme for the production and distribution of quality seeds to vulnerable families, the FAO/Emergency and Rehabilitation Coordination Unit (ERCU) started the rehabilitation of community storage warehouses in various provinces. This activity which first…

WOM/1626 Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 777th & 778th Meetings (AM & PM) Sierra Leone ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 1988 without reservation, but since it was emerging…

Les effets de la crise sur la ville de Bouna, située à 650 kilomètres au Nord-est d'Abidjan, sautent aux yeux : plusieurs maisons abandonnées et/ou délabrées, certains bâtiments administratifs n'ont ni toit ni fenêtres, et le ramassage des ordures…

Crisis Prevention & Recovery Violent conflicts and natural disasters can wipe out decades of development gains. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) addresses the effects of these man-made and natural crises as part of its efforts to cut world poverty…

Some of the effects of the Ivorian crisis on the city of Bouna, located 650 kilometres northeast of Abidjan, are painfully obvious. There are several dilapidated and, in some cases, abandoned houses. Certain administrative buildings have neither roofs nor…

SC/9016 Security Council 5674th Meeting (AM) Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Security Council decided this morning to extend the deployment of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) until…