The United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) completed its Security Council mandate on 31 December 2020
UNIOGBIS Statements
The group of five (5) international partners of Guinea-Bissau, known as the “P5 Group”, namely the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union
(AU), the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN), learned with amazement and great concern that, on Sunday July 26, 2020, acts of vandalism were perpetrated on the facilities and equipment of Radio Capital FM in Bissau, by armed men wearing uniforms.
29 Jul 2020 - Such acts, which infringe on people's freedom of expression and right to information, are reprehensible in a State governed by the rule of law and seriously undermine freedom of opinion, which is an essential foundation of democratic states.
Therefore, the P5 Group:
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14 Nov 2019 - The office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau launches a Public Report on the Right to Participate in Political and Public Affairs in Guinea-Bissau
The report is timely contribution on the Right to Participate in Political and Public...
29 Oct 2019 - The United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) is saddened and concerned to learn about the death of a civilian and injury to several others, reportedly following a demonstration in Bissau on Saturday, 26 October 2019.
UNIOGBIS calls on the...
10 Sep 2019 - Ms. Rosine H. Sori-Coulibaly, of Burkina Faso, arrived in Bissau on 5 September 2019 as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau and the Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).
Ms. Sori-Coulibaly,...
22 Jul 2019 - UN Women and UNDP will report on Monday, July 22, 2019 at a dissemination ceremony to be held in the UNIOGBIS training room at 10:00 a.m., the 26 approved projects to receive small grants, through the Peacebuilding Fund in Guinea-Bissau.
Under the UN Women Project: Support for...
06 Jul 2019 - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), on 17 June, will hold an event at the French Cultural Center in Bissau to mark the conclusion of their two projects on protection of minors and prevention of trafficking...
01 Jul 2019 - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has a new Representative in Guinea-Bissau.
She is called Nadine Perrault and is a native of Haiti.
Before being appointed UNICEF Representative for Guinea-Bissau, Dr. Nadine served as the Representative of the UNICEF Office in El...
03 May 2019 - Guinea-Bissau journalists today mark the World Press Freedom Day dedicated to Journalism and Democracy with their first Gala of Excellence and a journalism class on TV.
"Being and seeming to be a journalist in Guinea Bissau" is the theme of the live lecture on the National...
28 Mar 2019 - The United Nations family in Guinea-Bissau, and around the world, on March 30th joins once again the initiative Earth Hour and urges everyone to turn off the lights for one hour - Earth Hour. The goal is not only to contribute to the preservation of our Planet, but also to be...
15 Feb 2019 - P5 PRESS RELEASE
AU-CPLP-ECOWAS-EU-UN
1. The group of the five (5) international partners organizations of Guinea-Bissau known as "P5" Group (AU, CPLP, ECOWAS, EU and UN) has followed with worry the incidents that marked the demonstration of the students on 8 February 2o19,...
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