Training a deminer at the mock minefield, at Mine Action Training Center in Omdurman, Khartoum state
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In Bunia, Ituri, women peacebuilders turned their experiences into a powerful collective poem in a workshop led by UN Global Peace Advocate Maryam Bukar Hassan during her visit.
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You are a prison officer and an inmate is trying to escape. What can you do about it? Or more importantly: what should you do to stop the want-to-be fugitive? “How about you chase him? You may be faster than he is. Shooting…
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The course aimed to enhance the understanding and application of electoral laws and the individual voter’s right to vote by law enforcement agencies designated with the responsibility of maintaining law and order to ensure…
Senior officers in the South Sudanese army (SPLA) have been meeting in Juba with a view to getting removed from the list of shame that bears names of perpetrators of grave violations against children. “We need to be serious…
“Events on the battlefield” are the main spoiler to the peace process in Yemen, but political negotiations are the top overall priority for resolving the conflict, according to the UN’s envoy for the country, speaking…
Personal Envoy for Western Sahara visits the territory Laâyoune, 28 June 2018 The Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara, President Horst Köhler, arrived in Laâyoune on 28 June 2018. He was welcomed by…
Hundreds of colleagues and friends bid a final farewell to Lieutenant Commander Ashraf Siddiqui, a Bangladeshi peacekeeper killed in an ambush earlier this week. Colleagues and friends of fallen peacekeeper Lieutenant…
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Personal Envoy for Western Sahara visits the Territory Laâyoune, 28 June 2018 The Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara, President Horst Köhler, arrived in Laâyoune on 28 June 2018. He was welcomed by…
The G5, made up of representatives of the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union, the World Bank, the Economic Community of Central African States, France and the United States, condemns in the strongest terms…
Colleagues and friends of fallen peacekeeper Lieutenant Commander Ashraf Siddiqui came together in their hundreds to mourn his death at the Bangladeshi contingent’s UN base in Juba. The Military Liaison Officer from…
Some 140 British peacekeepers have received UN medals for their dedicated work in South Sudan. Growing up, Lieutenant Nick Lytollis dreamed of becoming a world class vet. Unbeknownst to the animal kingdom, it missed out on…
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KABUL - Determined to improve women's participation in democratic processes, women’s groups in Kabul and Kandahar provinces are leading advocacy efforts and enlisting support from their local communities. Working with the…
Growing up , Lieutenant Nick Lytollis dreamed of becoming a world class vet. Unbeknownst to the animal kingdom, it missed out on his services. It just was not to be. “I soon realized that I wasn’t clever enough to be a vet,”…