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The Secretary-General welcomes today's arrest of Ratko Mladic, former Commander of the army of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He commends President Tadic and the Serbian authorities for this significant step…
Dili, 26 May 2011 - Julie Langelier, a 32-year-old new mother, works with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Timor-Leste to improve the lives of children with disabilities. She is stationed in Baucau, a remote…
Dili, 26 May 2011 - From community policing to navigating the duties of a national staff officer in Timor-Leste, the 30-year-old Hamimat Lawal's job as a UN peacekeeper is anything but boring. Before her deployment to UNMIT…
Dili, 26 May 2011 - For Major Chizu Kurita, a 36-year-old Japanese military officer from Kyoto, Japan, visiting the people who live in remote rural communities near Baucau, Timor-Leste, is an experience she will never forget…
25 May 2011 – UN Humanitarian Coordinator Georg Charpentier yesterday called for protection of the civilian population forced to flee Abyei town and surrounding villages, assurance of their safe passage and their right to…
24 May 2011 - The UN Security Council (UNSC) has urged the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) parties in the north and south to restore peace in Abyei and deal with critical, pending CPA issues with openness and flexibility…
23 May 2011 - The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has drafted a plan committing Member States and development partners to implement priority nutrition interventions and policies on health care, education and…
25 May 2011 - The Sharia Faculty of Takhar University in northern Afghanistan is today holding a conference on the Sharia law, the Afghan Constitution and human rights. The conference comes one day after a similar event was…
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Bujumbura, May 23, 2011_The United Nations independent expert on human rights in Burundi today welcomed what he said were several positive rights developments in the small African country, but cautioned about the continuing…
24 May 2011 - UNAMID Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari, accompanied by senior Mission officials, met today in Nyala with the Wali (Governor) of South Darfur Abdulhameed Musa Kasha. The visit served as a…
24 May 2011 – Speaking in front of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and his cabinet members in the Presidential Palace, a woman is making a series of demands. She is a representative from a District Development Assembly…
Goma, 19 May 2011 – The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) Civil Affairs Section has just ended a three-day public awareness campaign from 12 May which was to encourage peace…