Reports

May - July 2010 John Watt, Lene Poulsen EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Although the country context has changed during the past three and a half years there are a number of ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic that warrants continued support from…

ICC-OTP-20101011-PR582 11 October 2010, Mr. Callixte Mbarushimana, a leader of the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), was arrested today, in Paris, by the French authorities following a sealed arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. ICC Prosecutor…

Date: 6 October 2010 On-the-ground innovative efforts to be supported in 18 countries by the multilateral Fund United Nations, New York - The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) today announced…

5 October 2010 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has considered the sixth periodic report of Burkina Faso on how that country implements the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against…

4 October 2010 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women this morning opened its forty-seventh session, hearing a statement from Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human…

Margaret Aguirre Director, Global Communications 310.826.7800 maguirre@InternationalMedicalCorps.org October 4, 2010 - Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo - International Medical Corps has been awarded $10 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)…

Human Rights Council MIDDAY 1 October 2010 The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review of Guinea-Bissau and Kiribati. Cletche Sanha, Legal Counsel with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guinea-Bissau, said the real problem affecting the…

SC/10044 Security Council 6392nd Meeting (AM) The Security Council this morning ended an arms embargo and other sanctions imposed on Sierra Leone during its brutal civil war, while, in a separate text, it extended the mandate for the Integrated Peacebuilding Office in…

KINSHASA / GENEVE (29 de septembre de 2010) Un panel de Personnalités de Haut Niveau a été constitué par la Haut Commissaire des Nations Unies aux Droits de l'Homme afin d'auditionner les victimes de violences sexuelles en République Démocratique…

Human Rights Council Sixteenth session Agenda item 10 Technical assistance and capacity-building Summary The present report covers the Independent Expert's eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth visits to Burundi, which were conducted from 19 to 30 January 2009, from 30 November to 11 December 2009, and…