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On Human Rights Day, SRSG Zahir Tanin Calls for Placing Human Rights at the Core of the COVID-19 Response and Recovery
10 December 2020 - On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Zahir Tanin, renews the UN’s commitment to support Kosovo institutions and other…
UNAMID launches Network for Survivors of Sexual Violence in the Greater Jebel Mara area of Darfur
Photo by Amin Ismail, UNAMID. On 10 December, the Women Protection Advisory Unit of the Human Rights Section (HRS) launched a Network for Survivors of Sexual Violence in the Greater Jebel Mara area of Darfur. The launch, held…
Radio programming can play crucial role in ending gender-based violence in Northern-Bahr-el-Ghazal
Radio stations can play a vital role in raising awareness on and preventing gender-based violence of any kind, including early and forced marriages. Communities of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal have been sensitized on how to report…
Art therapy for child victims of abuse in Kaga Bandoro
By Maria Kabatanya To mark the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression on 4 June, the MINUSCA Pakistan Contingent organized an art therapy session for children at the Polyvalent School in Kaga Bandoro, to…
COVID-19: Sewing machines to support the making of face masks in Birao
As a response to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in the Central African Republic (CAR), and specifically in Birao (North of the CAR), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through MINUSCA donated a number of items…
Securing the city: on patrol with the Joint Task Force for Bangui
The convoy set off from Bangui’s 3rd district police station at 15:30 p.m., marking the start of the motorized patrol of 3 June 2020. At its head was the Central African National Gendarmerie. A United Nations Police (UNPOL)…
Wearing face masks now compulsory in CAR
The use of face masks in public had been left to personal discretion since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. That changed on 12 June 2020, when the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) launched a campaign…
World environment day | message of UN Secretary-general
Nature is sending us a clear message. We are harming the natural world – to our own detriment. Habitat degradation and biodiversity loss areaccelerating. Climate disruption is getting worse. Fires, floods, droughts and…
Birao: UN peacekeepers’ day observed amid COVID-19 pandemic
United Nations Peacekeepers in Birao commemorated the International Day of Peacekeepers on 29 May with a march past by MINUSCA Zambian contingent and Central African Republic army (FACA) troops, under the theme ‘’Women in…
ITURI: MONUSCO Rehabilitates a vital bridge to promote trade and improve the population's safety
ITURI: MONUSCO Rehabilitates a vital bridge to promote trade and improve the population's safety It took three weeks for the MONUSCO Nepalese military engineers to refurbish the Kolomani bridge on the road from Bunia to…