Rapports

GA/SHC/3747 Fifty-eighth General Assembly Third Committee 17th & 18th Meetings (AM & PM) Despite major achievements in the international arena for the protection of the rights of the child, the situation of war-affected children remained grave and unacceptable, said the…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)Note: This Situation Report updates USAID/OFDA Liberia Situation Report #2, FY 2004, dated October 8, 2003. Background Liberia has been marked…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: This Situation Report updates USAID/OFDA Liberia Situation Report #13, dated October 1, 2003. Background Liberia has been marked by intermittent civil war…

GA/SHC/3739 Fifty-eighth General Assembly Third Committee 6th Meeting (AM) Difficulties faced in achieving social development in the midst of conflicts, poverty, unemployment, and HIV/AIDS, as well as in the current international economic environment, were stressed by several African delegations today as…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)Note: This Situation Report updates USAID/OFDA Liberia Situation Report #12, dated September 24, 2003. Background Liberia has been marked by intermittent…

General Situation Monrovia is calm but there have been reports of shooting and armed robbery around Dupont area in the past week. Multiple sources reported continued hostilities and new displacement of over 2,000 people in Bong and Nimba Counties. Unconfirmed…

URGENT NEEDS TO SUPPORT HOPES FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIBERIAN CHILDREN: The International humanitarian community progressively gains negotiated access to rebel-controlled areas Major efforts underway to save over one million people, mostly children and women, at risk…

AFR/707, IHA/799 MONROVIA, 22 September (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The United Nations Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Liberia, Ross Mountain, today backed a call from the Security Council for all parties to the conflict to immediately cease their…

GENERAL SITUATION The UN Special Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr Ross Mountain, returned to Liberia today after attending the Security Council meeting in New York last week, at which the Council resolved to deploy a UN stabilisation force to Liberia. In addition…

Text/Photos: Kent Page, UNICEF Regional Communication Officer, West & Central Africa Region Monrovia, Liberia, 20 September 2003 "It happened right there", says Anthony Nelson, Principal of the Newport Elementary School in Monrovia. "Right there, where those boys are playing football. It…