Delivered by Ms. Susana Malcorra, Chef de Cabinet I commend the United Kingdom for convening this Ministerial Meeting and for its longstanding leadership on Somalia. The stakes are high. The international community must stand…
07 November 2015, Montreux, Geneva - Forty Libyan women from diverse backgrounds from inside and outside Libya are currently gathering in Montreux to reflect on their aspirations for peace and their role and contribution to…
GARDEZ - Effective strategies for promoting women’s increased participation in the media was the topic of a UNAMA-backed panel discussion held in Gardez, capital of the eastern province of Paktya. Some 50 participants…
07 November 2015 - SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON LIBYA The members of the Security Council expressed their concern over Libya's ongoing political, security and institutional crises and the rising threat of terrorism…
5 November 2015: Seventeen Libyan participants successfully completed a three-week-long humanitarian emergency response training course for explosive ordnance disposal on 5 November 2015. This humanitarian emergency response…
The Secretary-General is alarmed by the ongoing escalation of violence in Burundi. He expresses grave concern that in recent weeks, the discovery of the bodies of civilian victims, many apparently summarily executed, has…
05 November 2015 - The Joint Misrata / Tawergha Dialogue Committee met in Tunis on 20-31 October and in Geneva on 1-5 November 2015 with the facilitation of UNSMIL’s Human Rights, Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Division…
(As Delivered) Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Council, 1. Since the High Level Meeting on Libya which took place on the margins of the General Assembly on 2 October, UNSMIL convened what should have been a final…
Mr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, the head of the UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA), participated, on 04 November 2015, to the 57th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR). Kindly find below…
MAZAR-E-SHARIF - The extraordinary work of a group of Afghan professionals, assisted by the United Nations, was marked at a photographic exhibition in Mazar-e-Sharif today. Around 100 people, including students…
MAZAR-E-SHARIF - Afghan political leaders, diplomats and civil society representatives joined with United Nations officials in Mazar-e-Sharif to celebrate the enduring Afghan-UN partnership. Atta Mohammad Noor, the Governor…