Press Releases

Millions of lives have been shattered this year by drought, storms, earthquakes, landslides and heatwaves. Last weekend, I witnessed firsthand the dramatic levels of devastation caused by severe hurricanes in the Caribbean…

Tunis – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has started providing vital food assistance to families who have been displaced by clashes between armed groups in western Libya’s Sabratha. The area has recently…

Photos for the visit to Tripoli / video report for the visit Geneva, 12 October 2017 - No UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ever managed to make an official visit to discuss the human rights situation in Libya during the…

The 41st round of the Geneva International Discussions has just concluded. In Working Group I dealing with security issues, the situation on the ground was extensively reviewed and assessed as relatively calm and stable. The…

Bogotá. 11 October 2017. Within the framework of the Agreement between the Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN) for the Temporary, Bilateral, and National ceasefire effective from 1 October 2017 to 9…

Sabratah – In the aftermath of weeks of conflict in the Libyan coastal city of Sabratah, at least 4,000 migrants, previously held in numerous informal detention centres and camps, have been transferred to a hangar in the city…

Tumaco, October 9, 2017. On Sunday, 8 October, a Humanitarian Mission including participants from the office of the Governor of Nariño, the municipal ombudsman of Tumaco, the Diocese of Tumaco, the Office of the UN High…

4 October, 2017 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) condemns today’s suicide attack against the court house in the Libyan city of Misrata. The attack, for which the Islamic State (ISIL) claimed…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU), and the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) have been following closely the socio-political developments in the Togolese…