Reports

Overview Systematic patterns of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) have emerged around UN peacekeeping missions over the course of many years.1 Reports of abuse by peacekeepers in Cambodia and the Balkans in the 1990s were followed by news of similar…

SC/9769 Security Council 6203rd Meeting (AM) In Briefing, MONUC Chief Says Rebuilding Country, Ensuring Lasting Safety Of Population Require Security Council's Continued Assistance, Engagement Now that there was a real prospect of ending the violence plaguing the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, efforts…

The top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today voiced optimism that calm could soon return to the country's volatile eastern region, while noting that a number of challenges still remain. "There is now a…

Faits Majeurs - Lancement de la semaine des Nations Unies au Tchad; - Lancement de la campagne contre les violences faites aux femmes; - Lancement de la Journée Mondiale de l'Alimentation; - Les engins non explosés continuent à faire des victimes. Quatre enfants tués…

Bruxelles, le 15 octobre 2009 - EurAc, le Réseau Européen pour l'Afrique Centrale, a toujours défendu la thèse selon la quelle aucune solution durable ne pourra être trouvée pour le Rwanda, le Burundi ou la République Démocratique du Congo…

Brussels, October 15th 2009, EurAc, the network of European NGOs for Central Africa, has always taken the position that any sustainable solution to the problems of Rwanda, Burundi or the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must be based…

GA/SHC/3951 Sixty-fourth General Assembly Third Committee 12th & 13th Meetings (AM & PM) Also Hears from Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, As It Begins Multi-Day Debate on Promotion, Protection of Rights of Child Violence against children, and ways to…

GA/L/3367 Sixty-fourth General Assembly Sixth Committee 8th & 9th Meetings (AM & PM) Deputy Secretary-General Says Issue Is Central to Vision of Secure World The Sixth Committee (Legal) met today to address the issue of the development of the rule of…

Des Moines, Iowa-Twenty-nine countries around the world have alarming or extremely alarming levels of hunger, and thirteen countries have actually seen increases in their hunger levels since 1990, according to the 2009 Global Hunger Index report. The Democratic Republic of Congo…

Sierra Leone, 14 October 2009 - "I am so thankful to UNICEF for giving me back my son", says Mama Wuya, a mother who got her son back last year after six years of separation. She is one of…