Press Releases

As part of its mandate for preventing conflicts and sustaining peace, the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), organized, in partnership with ECOWAS Commission, on 26 – 27 March 2018, in Abidjan, a…

New York, 26 March 2018 I am pleased to join you today to remember and commemorate the victims and survivors of the transatlantic slave trade. Lasting for over 400 years, the abominable buying and selling of human beings was…

Tunis, 19 March 2018 – Starting today, over the next four weeks, 180 Libyan youth will participate in workshops for promoting Positive Peace, organised by UNICEF and the Institute of Economics and Peace through funding from…

Tunis, 19 March 2018 – Starting today, over the next four weeks, 180 Libyan youth will participate in workshops for promoting Positive Peace, organised by UNICEF and the Institute of Economics and Peace through funding from…

Jane Holl Lute, Special Coordinator on Improving the United Nations Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, briefed the press on 13 Mar, on the launch of a new report of the Secretary-General on Special Measures for…

Primary Health Care (PHC) is the pillar of health systems, By providing access to quality preventive and curative care, strong PHC plays a critical role in preventing epidemics; improving women’s and children’s health…

Primary Health Care (PHC) is the pillar of health systems, By providing access to quality preventive and curative care, strong PHC plays a critical role in preventing epidemics; improving women’s and children’s health…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) takes seriously the allegations of sexual abuse committed by its troops, which were made by Bishop of Bangassou…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) takes seriously the allegations of sexual abuse committed by its troops, which were made by Bishop of Bangassou…

Libya, 4 March 2018 – The World Health Organization country office in Libya delivered a mobile clinic to the city of Sabha in order to respond to the health needs of thousands of people in urban and out of reach areas in the…