Rapports

MONROVIA, Liberia, Dec 8 (UNHCR) - More than 2,000 former combatants in Liberia have turned in their weapons in an encouraging start to a disarmament and rehabilitation campaign to stabilise the country. The inter-agency campaign of Disarmament, Demobilisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration…

UNMIL/PIO/PR/22 (Monrovia, Liberia) - Hundreds of Liberian combatants turned out today at Camp Schieffelin, an army barracks 35 miles outside Monrovia, to hand in their arms to United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) peacekeepers. The fighters, mainly loyal to the…

GENEVA, 5 December (UN Information Service) -- The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is seeking $54.8 million in contributions to fund activities in the coming year and to continue efforts to strengthen the…

MONROVIA, Liberia, Dec 5 (UNHCR) - Thousands of internally displaced Liberians living in irregular shelters outside the capital, Monrovia, can soon enjoy better assistance and security as the UN refugee agency today started moving them to proper accommodation centres. On Friday,…

3-5 December 2003 GENERAL SITUATION I. Assessment Missions undertaken An inter-agency assessment mission to two irregular shelters, Massaquoi and Hutton Farm in Margibi County was carried out on 3 December to ascertain the humanitarian needs of IDPs reported to be sheltered in…

S/2003/1147 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to the presidential statement of 25 July 2003 (S/PRST/2003/12) by which the Security Council requested me to submit by 30 November 2003 a progress report on the implementation…

S/2003/1157 Report of the Secretary-General on developments in Guinea-Bissau and on the activities of the United Nations Peace-building Support Office in that country I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to paragraph 14 of Security Council resolution 1233 (1999) of…

S/2003/1146 I. Introduction 1. Since my previous report to the Security Council on the situation in and relating to Burundi, of 18 November 2002 (S/2002/1259), there have been a number of positive developments in the country and in…

MONROVIA, Liberia, Dec 4 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has joined an inter-agency campaign to demobilise and rehabilitate an estimated 40,000 former combatants in Liberia, focusing on their return and reintegration into civilian life. The nine-month programme of Disarmament, Demobilisation,…

SC/7943, AFR/782 Following is today's statement to the press by the President of the Security Council, Stefan Tafrov (Bulgaria): The members of the Security Council carried out a review of the measures on Liberia pursuant to resolution 1478 (2003) bearing in…