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The UN Joint Vision Programme Two partners held a capacity building training on Human rights Approach to Legislative Review for members of the Parliamentary Human Rights and Legislative Committees, and the Parliamentary…
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KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has partnered with religious institutions to provide solar panels that will power much-needed electricity to schools as well as promote the use of renewable…
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KABUL - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for concerted efforts to help Afghanistan extricate itself from the scourge of drug production, use and trafficking, noting that the country’s stability remains at stake with…
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NEW YORK - Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The drug trade degrades individuals and destabilizes nations. It is a threat to the well-being and development of Afghanistan and its neighbours. Afghanistan suffers from one of…
New York, 17 February 2012 - Today, Libyans are within reach of a democratic future which one year ago seemed only a distant dream. In the year ahead, the United Nations stands ready to lend its utmost support to Libyan…
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The Deputy UN envoy in Liberia for Rule of Law, Louis Aucoin has called on all actors of the criminal justice chain in Liberia to redouble their efforts to revamp the country’s justice system. Speaking at a ceremony in the…
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Mbuji Mayi, 9 February 2012 - The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) in Kasaï Oriental organized on 7 February 2012, a day of reflection on the role of social media in the promotion of human rights. The…
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MONROVIA, Liberia, February 2012 – Liberia has been declared to have eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). The declaration was made recently by a validation team from the World Health Organization after a…
17 February 2012 - In combating the high HIV/AIDS rate in the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), the UN and a partner donated 140 cartons of condoms to the South Sudanese military today in Juba. The condoms were handed…
A dozen South Sudanese actors in their 20s and 30s sit on couches lining the walls of a hotel lounge in Juba, poring over scripts under the watchful gaze of veteran theatre directors Joseph Abuk and Derik Uya Alfred. The…
When Rosa Pita began cooking in her backyard in the South Sudanese capital of Juba in 1992, she never dreamed she would one day become a role model for aspiring restaurateurs. Popularly known as Mama Zahra, the 44-year-old…
John Okulo has come a long way since he signed up with the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) as a child soldier at the tender age of 14. Unlike many of his comrades who served in the SPLA, the now 21-year-old former…