Press Releases

Genuine reconciliation and lasting peace will only be achieved in South Sudan if people are free and safe to express their opinions regardless of their ethnic or political affiliations, says a UN report released today. The…

(22 February 2018; 10:30 hours; Marawi Hall, UNDP Building, Gama’a Street) Good morning ladies and gentlemen, It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our first meeting in 2018. Before I start the briefing, I’d like to…

At the initiative of UNOCA and the National Police Forces (FPN) of Gabon, a workshop opened on Monday 19 February at the FPN Command with the aim to strengthen the operational capacities of 34 police officers in the area of…

The attention of United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) is drawn to a news story carried by Radio Tamazuj under the caption “UNISFA bows to local pressure, fires engineering department head,” and credited to…

Tunis, 19-23 February 2018 - On 19 February 2018, World Health Organization with financial support from the European Union started five day capacity building on HINARI Access to Research for Health Programme: Training…

The Secretary-General is deeply alarmed by the escalating situation in Eastern Ghouta and its devastating impact on civilians Nearly 400,000 people in Eastern Ghouta have been subjected to airstrikes, shelling and bombardment…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has been informed of an allegation of sexual abuse, by a member of the military battalion from the Democratic…

UNMISS PoC sites Update No.192

Almaty, 16 February, 2018: SRSG Natalia Gherman took part in the special high-level meeting “Kazakhstan - United Nations: experience, achievements and prospects of cooperation”, dedicated to the 25 th Anniversary of the…