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The eighth meeting of the Supervisory Committee on the Implementation of the Detainees Exchange Agreement has concluded today in Amman, Jordan. Based on the positive momentum achieved earlier in March in releasing a large…
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Hate speech is often aimed at vulnerable groups, reinforcing discrimination, stigma and marginalization. Minorities, women, refugees, migrants, and people of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity are frequent targets…
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Kismayo – Wrapping up her initial round of visits to Somalia’s Federal Member States, the new top United Nations official for Somalia today visited Jubaland where she met with its leadership to discuss topics including UN…
On 12 June, MINURSO celebrated Russia’s National Day by raising its flag at the Mission headquarters in Laayoune next to the UN flag. On this day, in 1991, the Russian parliament formally the Declaration of Russian State…
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Edited for length and clarity Thank you very much, Mr. President, for the very warm welcome you and your team have extended to me here in Kismayo, Jubaland. It is such a pleasure to be back in Kismayo. I was here in the…
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On 12 June, MINURSO celebrated Russia’s National Day by raising its flag at the Mis sion headquarters in Laayoune next to the UN flag. On this day, in 1991, the Russian parliament formally the Declaration of Russian State…
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This Week in DPPA is a brief roundup of political and peacebuilding events and developments at UNHQ and around the world. USG DiCarlo visits Moscow Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary A…
TRIPOLI – After the 6+6 Committee of the House of Representatives and High Council of State announced the completion of its draft electoral laws on 6 June, SRSG Abdoulaye Bathily initiated a series of meetings with political…
These are drums for peace, used as part of the solution to reconcile the previously feuding villages of Omoruo and Lohilai in Eastern Equatoria State. Photos: Okello James/UNMISS EASTERN EQUATORIA – Music lovers will know…
Ten years ago, the United Nations and the Congolese government signed a joint communiqué on combating conflict-related sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This document, signed on March 30, 2013 and amended…
(Link to the full brief, and infographics, at the bottom of this page). Juba, 16 June 2023 – Violence against civilians persists across South Sudan, according to the latest quarterly Human Rights Brief from the United Nations…
These are drums for peace, used as part of the solution to reconcile the previously feuding villages of Omoruo and Lohilai in Eastern Equatoria State. Photos: Okello James/UNMISS
EASTERN EQUATORIA – Music lovers will know that star drummers, and drumming in general, tend to divide opinions and, in some cultures, become symbols of teenage love, longing and angst. It is, however, less known that peace…