Rapports

Adopted by the African Union Permanent Representatives Committee During its Special Open Session on the Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Genocide in Rwanda 7 April 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia We, Members of the Permanent Representative Committee, held an Open Special…

SG/SM/9245, AFR/891, HR/CN/1077 Following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva today: It is good that we have observed those minutes of silence together. We must never forget our collective failure to…

DSG/SM/218 Following are Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette's remarks at a panel discussion on "A Decade after Rwanda: the United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect", in New York, 7 April: Thank you all for coming to the United Nations to join in…

Context The Accra peace accord signed in August 2003, followed by the deployment of UN peacekeepers (UNMIL), has brought an end to Liberia's 14 years of civil war. A fragile peace is now in place and security has improved in…

Ten years ago this week some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the genocide that broke out on April 6th, the worst planned ethnic killing since the Holocaust fifty years prior. The events of 1994 ripped through…

RI Advocate Sarah Martin recently returned from a mission to West Africa. Like many women in Sierra Leone, Ami (not her real name), a Sierra Leonean refugee living in Liberia, was inducted into a "secret society" at puberty. She…

par Jennifer Bakody & Ulli Mwambulukutu/MONUC Bien que le programme national de DDR n'ait pas encore été lancé, à Kindu, chef-lieu de la province du Maniema, des centaines de militaires appartenant au 85e Bataillon de l'ex-ANC (bras armé du RCD)…

"During the genocide, the militia at the barriers said they would protect me, but instead they kept me and raped me in their homes. One militia member would keep me for two or three days, and then another would…

AI Index: AFR 47/009/2004 (Public) Ten years on from the start of the genocide in Rwanda, genocide, war and HIV/AIDS have contributed to a generation of orphaned children living in destitution and vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, said Amnesty International…

Text: Kent Page, UNICEF Regional Communication Officer, Western & Central Africa Region, Dakar Situation Overview: West Africa today finds itself at a critical juncture, particularly amongst the countries affected by the ongoing Ivory Coast Sub-Regional Crisis. Cross-border violent conflict, ethnic bitterness…