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Bogota, February 28, 2017 – The UN Mission will begin to verify the FARC-EP’s laying down of arms tomorrow, 1 March. The process should conclude on May 29, as agreed by the parties, 180 days after the Final Agreement came…
“Those not respecting human rights must be held accountable” The Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Martin Kobler, has been following with deep concern the…
UNICEF calls for implementation of six-point agenda for action to keep refugee and migrant children safe New York / Geneva, 28 February 2017 – Refugee and migrant children and women are routinely suffering sexual violence…
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His Excellency Federal President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmaajo” convened a high-level roundtable meeting in the Somali capital today to address the severe drought currently afflicting over six million people and agree…
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1. Under the patronage of His Excellency President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmaajo”, and in line with the Mogadishu Declaration of 22 February 2017, 31 delegations and representatives of civil society, the private sector…
Geneva, 27 February 2017 (as delivered) Distinguished President of the Human Rights Council, President of the General Assembly, High Commissioner, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Colleagues, Friends, It is a profound…
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MAZAR-E SHARIF - A team of bright young law students from Balkh, fresh from winning Afghanistan’s national law championship award, will represent the country in April at the annual Philip C. Jessup Law Moot Court Competition…
Monrovia - On 24 February 2017, as part of UNMIL’s continued efforts to raise awareness on the criminal accountability of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) soldiers, the AFL conducted a half-day training on the Memorandum of…
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UN Deputy Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Philippe Lazzarini Remarks at the Launch of the Ministry of State for Women’s Affairs I am very pleased to be here with you today. The…
IOM has held a five-day training for managers and staff of Libyan detention centres on: The Promotion and Protection of Migrants’ Human Rights inside the Detention Centres. The training was designed to build the capacity of…
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President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo described the drought facing more than six million Somalis today as a “national disaster” and appealed to the international community to help raise $825 million to prevent the crisis from…
27 February, 2017 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) in Kosovo, Zahir Tanin, highlighted to Security Council members today that resumption of top-level dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina was…