Reports

par Francine Muswele/MONUC Au Katanga, l'heure est à la ruée vers le cuivre, métal qui a atteint des prix jamais vu depuis dix ans. Dans les mines ce sont souvent des enfants qui font le dur travail. Enfants demunis, orphelins…

When the Government of Sierra Leone (GOSL) publicly acknowledged the causes of the war for the first time during a Paris meeting in 2002 which included the marginalization of youth and women, basic education for all, particularly for the…

by Francine Muswele/MONUC In Katanga, time is for the rush for copper, a metal whose price has incredibly soared for the past ten years. In ore deposits children are the ones who often do the bulk of the work. Resourceless,…

Press release No. 04/31 Pierluigi Collina, Anders Frisk, Markus Merk and Lubos Michel launch campaign to 'Protect Children in War' at pre-tournament seminar near Porto UEFA and the International Committee of the Red Cross today officially launched their joint campaign for…

UNMIL/PIO/PR/68 (Monrovia, Liberia) - The third meeting of the Implementation Monitoring Committee (IMC), tasked to ensure the effective and faithful implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed by the parties to the Liberian conflict on 18 August 2003, was held yesterday…

The Burundian government and the international community are attentively focused on the mass repatriation of Burundian refugees from Tanzania. While such attention for returnees is justified, the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Burundi remains precarious. According to UN…

General Situation 1. Highlights UNHCR High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers arrives in Liberia on 3 May on the final leg of eight-day mission to West Africa to review progress of the ongoing repatriation and reintegration of Sierra Leonean refugees and to assess…

UNMIL/PIO/PR/66 (Monrovia, Liberia) - The disarmament and demobilization of Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) combatants in Tubmanburg, about 35 kilometers northwest of Monrovia, began yesterday, with 268 combatants, including 51 women and 75 children, joining the program. The town…

14th-26th April 2004 1. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS/ HIGHLIGHTS Jean-Marie Guéhenno, USG for the UN peacekeeping operations in New York visited Côte d'Ivoire from the 15th-19th April. During his visit Guéhenno held talks with both President Gbagbo and the coalition of opposition parties…

MONROVIA, Liberia, April 26 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency is resuming full operations in Liberia, sending staff to previously-inaccessible areas on the heels of UN peacekeeping troops to pave the way for organised repatriation later this year. On Monday,…