Reports

Church, Grassroots Leaders Supporting Civil Society, Taking On Peace with Justice, Development, NEPAD NEW YORK, NY, 3/25/03 ­ Ending a two-week mission to the U.S. this past weekend (3/21), a delegation from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, The Gambia, and Ghana…

GENERAL SITUATION Numbers Entering Guinea from Ivory Coast A further 53 people entered Guinea from Ivory Coast in the reporting period. Of these, seven are Guineans, 11 Ivorians and 35 other West African nationals. 46,770 people have arrived from Cote d'Ivoire and been…

The following statement was issued today by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello: The High Commissioner for Human Rights expresses profound concern at the continuing armed conflict in Liberia and its toll on the civilian…

GENEVA, March 21 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency today launched a revised appeal for $29 million to help some 163,000 people who could be affected by a crisis in Côte d'Ivoire that has already displaced hundreds of thousands…

AI Index: AFR 62/009/2003 (Public) The Ugandan authorities should bring suspected perpetrators of the serious human rights abuses committed in Ituri to justice before Uganda's courts, Amnesty International said today in a new report on the deteriorating situation in Ituri…

S/2003/344 Letter dated 17 March 2003 from the Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General I have the honour to forward herewith, in my capacity as the representative of the current Chairman of the African Union,…

SC/7699 Security Council 4723rd Meeting (PM) Also Requests Increased Presence for UN Mission In Ituri Region, Site of Weeks of Violence, Recent Ceasefire The Security Council today welcomed the 6 March agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on arrangements aimed…

AFR/586, IHA/768 NEW YORK, 18 March (OCHA) - Fighting between Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy Rebels and Liberian Government forces in Liberia's Bong County has caused an estimated 15,000 persons to flee the town of Gbarnga toward Totota, where…

Commission on Human Rights 59th session The Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Commission on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Professor Iulia Motoc, is greatly concerned about the summary executions, kidnappings, disappearances, rapes and…

par Patricia Tome Sous la facilitation et les auspices de la MONUC, six parmi les sept groupes politico-militaires actifs dans le district de l'Ituri (Nord-Est de la RDC) ont signé ce mardi 18 mars 2003 à Bunia un Accord de…