Reports

Program Description From March 2002 through August 2003, OTI supported the Burundi Initiative for Peace (BIP), implemented through the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES). The BIP provided small grants to indigenous civil society groups, the media, and the transitional government…

Oct-Nov 2003 LRA activities intensify in Lira In Lira, the protracted LRA rebel insurgency took another brutal turn mid-November following intensive LRA operations, resulting in over 100 people reportedly massacred in villages outside Lira town. Consequently, thousands of…

The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iulia Motoc, will visit that country from 29 November to 11 December at the invitation of the…

IMC/PR/1 (Monrovia, Liberia) - At its first meeting held on 28 November 2003, the Implementation Monitoring Committee (IMC) noted that there has been significant progress in the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed by the parties to the conflict on…

November 14th -- 28th 2003 Overview On 19th November 2003 in Guiglo, the UN launched the Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal: «CAP Côte d'Ivoire 2004» for US$ 60 million to respond to the needs of over one million people affected by the war…

A Memorandum to the DRC transitional government of national unity, armed groups and foreign governments involved in the DRC conflict, and the international community INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY In October 2003 an Amnesty International delegation, led by its Secretary…

(New York, November 27, 2003) Pro-government militias in Côte d'Ivoire are committing serious abuses against civilians, including killings and torture, Human Rights Watch said today. The Ivorian government and international peacekeeping forces must take steps to control the rise of…

UNMIL/PIO/PR/18 (Monrovia, Liberia) - The United Nations Mission in Liberia condemns in strongest terms those claiming to represent LURD, MODEL and the former Government of Liberia who participated in the initial meeting of the National Commission for Disarmament, Demobilization, Rehabilitation and…

AI INDEX: AFR 62/057/2003 News Service No. 269 As a Heads of State summit focusing on the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda begins in Pretoria today, Amnesty International urges the Heads of State to…

Souren Seraydarian, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Operations and Rule of Law Brig. Gen. Festus Okonkwo, Acting Deputy Force Commander Police Commissioner Mark A. Kroeker Major Nael Jarrah NEAR VERBATIM DSRSG Seraydarian: Good morning everybody, nice to see you again. I…