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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the membership of his Global Health Crises Task Force, which aims to help countries and communities prepare and respond to emergencies, such as the recent outbreaks…
Geneva, 30 June 2016 Good afternoon to all, we just finished the meeting of the Humanitarian Taskforce of the ISSG and a milestone in that regard was reached in Syria last night, because areas number 17 and 18 out of the 18…
26 June 2016 Today is the first International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking since the adoption last year of the Sustainable Development Goals. Goal 3 calls on countries to strengthen the prevention and…
Warning that attacks against United Nations peacekeepers may constitute war crimes, the Security Council has strongly condemned the killing of a ‘blue helmet’ serving with the United Nations operation in the Central African…
Exchanges between Ivorian National Police and United Nations Police officers at the opening ceremony of a UNPOL liaison office at the Gendarmerie School (Abidjan, January 2012)
- Secretary-General
UNHQ, New York Tuesday, 28 June 2016 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General condemns the series of suicide bombings yesterday that hit the…
Free medical consultations to the local population during UNOCI Days in Bocanda (February 2010)
New York, 29 June 2016 Good afternoon. You already heard [from] the Chairman of the Council, the Ambassador of France. Let me first summarize what we did and then of course I will take questions. The first point was that we…
The Special Representative discusses with an ADDR official on her way to the ceremony of handing-over of checks to former combatants, as part of community reinsertion projects (Guiglo, February 2014)
- Human Rights
Bunia – 28 June 2016: On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) in Ituri organized a conference that brought together local human rights…
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Conversations on the UN Secretary-General's Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism. On 27 and 28 June 2016 in Dakar, UNOWAS, in partnership with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Switzerland and…
KUNDUZ - The key role of religious leaders in advancing Afghanistan’s efforts toward peace was highlighted at two UN-backed TV debates in the country’s restive north-east. Separate panel debates in Baghlan and Takhar…