Rapports

UNMIL/PIO/PR/61 (Monrovia, Liberia) - Today, 255 combatants of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), including 35 children, disarmed to UN peacekeepers in Gbarnga, Bong County. The exercise in Gbarnga marked the resumption of the disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration…

par Mathy Mupapa/MONUC La Représentante spéciale adjointe du Secrétaire Général des Nations Unies, Lena Sundh, est arrivée au terme de son mandat de près de deux ans à la MONUC. Dans une interview accordée à MONUC Bulletin, elle brosse un…

A new 96-page report from African Rights, released on 15 April 2004 For the full significance of the national and international commemoration of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda on 7 April 2004 to be realized, African Rights believes we must…

by Eva Gilliam/MONUC With all of the negative press that Gedeon has been getting for his flesh eating and violent killing, the territory of Manono, which seemed to be moving at a swift pace towards peace and pacification with at…

AI Index: IOR 41/014/2004 (Public) News Service No: 90 Amnesty International has been following developments at the UN Commission on Human Rights and reiterates the importance of effective international oversight of the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

1st - 14th April 2004 1. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS/ HIGHLIGHTS The acting high commissioner for human rights has established an independent commission of inquiry to investigate the human rights violations committed during demonstrations in Abidjan on the 25th-26th March 2004, during which…

Refugees International President Ken Bacon has written to Arthur E. Dewey, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, to request U.S. engagement with the Tanzanian Government, urging it to continue to protect Burundian refugees. Tanzania has been a…

WHO: Representatives of 9 East African countries will convene for a workshop on scaling up and strengthening national responses to the region's Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC) crisis. The workshop has been organized by the Government of Uganda, with…

Richard Boucher, Spokesman Washington, DC April 13, 2004 The United States is pleased to announce an additional contribution of $19.5 million in humanitarian assistance for the people of Liberia. This funding is part of the U.S. pledge of $200 million in assistance…

Advocate Andrea Lari and McCall Pierpaoli Fellow George Kun recently returned from a one-month assessment mission to Burundi and Tanzania. This year UNHCR plans to repatriate 150,000 out of 300,000 Burundian refugees who fled to Tanzania in the past decade. The…