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The opening session of the workshop was chaired by Tiniguena Executive Secretary Miguel de Barros, President of the Guinean League of Human Rights, Augusto Mário, and Yasmine Cabral representing the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau.
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The Network of Civil Society Organizations for monitoring stability-promoting reforms, through the political dialogue support project, organized a workshop on one of the capital hotels, a workshop on priority stability reforms disseminated in the regions.
To mark International Human Rights Day, celebrated every year on 10 December, UNIOGBIS in partnership with Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, the National Commission on Human Rights and the House of Rights (Casa dos Direitos) held a ceremony in the Government Palace in Bissau.
Bissau Guineans went to the polls yesterday, 24 November 2019 to elect the new president of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau (SRSG), Rosine Hadizatou Sori Coulibaly, first visited, on October 31 and November 1, the eastern regions of Bafatá and Gabú.
UNIOGBIS marked the 74th United Nations Day in the country’s capital, Bissau, with a series of events targeting both the local population and the Government.
At the end of his two-day visit, President of the UN Peacebuilding Commission - Guinea-Bissau Configuration Mauro Vieira said he was confident that the elections would take place on 24 November in a fair, peaceful and credible manner.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) began today in Bissau, 23 september, a five-day training on specialized investigative techniques in the fight against drug trafficking and transnational organized crime for Supreme Court Judges, Prosecutors, Judicial Police Officers, among others.
In December 2018, the UN signed a partnership with the recently created Journalists Consortium of Guinea-Bissau to create the first professional training course for journalists in the country.
In her first week in office, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Guinea-Bissau, Ms. Rosine Hadizatou Sori-Coulibaly met the national authorities and will continue her courtesy visits to national and international partners in Guinea-Bissau.
Since the inauguration of Guinea-Bissau’s new Government in July, the political arena has been dominated by preparation for presidential elections, the assistant chief for UN peacekeeping operations in Africa told the Security Council on Tuesday, briefing members on the state of the nation, and the UN peacebuilding office there (UNIOGBIS).