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Reports and Policy Documents

2021

  • 3 Dic 2021

    TASHKENT, Uzbekistan

    On 3 December 2021, SRSG Natalia Gherman addressed the...

  • 3 Dic 2021

    ISTANBUL, Turkey

    UNRCCA and UNOCT in partnership with the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (...

  • 3 Dic 2021

    Dakar, 03 November 2021 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (...

  • 3 Dic 2021

    New York,  03 December 2021

    Realizing the rights, agency, and leadership of persons with disabilities will advance our common future.  

    We need everyone, including persons with disabilities, on board to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Around the world, persons with disabilities and their representative organizations are taking action to realize the call: ‘Nothing about us...

  • 2 Dic 2021

    The international community has reached a “turning point” in pursuing justice for atrocities committed by the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq, the new head of a special UN investigative team told the Security Council in New York on Thursday. 

  • 2 Dic 2021

    Participants at the launch of the Great Lakes Women Entrepreneurs’ Network. Seated in the front row, Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes and Richard Ngatia, President of the ICGLR Private Sector Forum. UN Photo/...

  • 2 Dic 2021

    TRIPOLI, 02 December 2021 - Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Jan Kubis yesterday met with the Chairman...

  • 2 Dic 2021

    A total of 274 million people worldwide will need emergency aid and protection in 2022, a 17 per cent increase compared with this year, UN humanitarians said on Thursday. 

  • 1 Dic 2021

    With millions in Afghanistan facing starvation as winter arrives, the World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday urged countries to put politics aside and step up support to avert a potential catastrophe. 

  • 1 Dic 2021

    Concluding a four-day to visit Burkina Faso, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday that the country faces “a multitude of challenges with severe impacts on a wide range of human rights of its people”.

  • 1 Dic 2021
     

    United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres and African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat today welcomed the continuing strong cooperation between the two organizations...

  • 1 Dic 2021

    For two decades, the African Union (AU) has been “a gold standard of regional co-operation”, Secretary-General António Guterres told the fifth UN-AU Annual Conference on Wednesday in New York.

  • 1 Dic 2021

    Mogadishu – A new two-year US$ 6.2 million joint programme on Women, Peace and Protection (WPP) was launched in Mogadishu on Tuesday by the Government of Somalia and the United Nations....

  • 1 Dic 2021
     

    Humanitarian | OCHA facilitates joint statement on worsening...

  • 1 Dic 2021

    Mogadishu - The United Nations in Somalia recently partnered with a leading Somali non-governmental...

  • 30 Nov 2021

    With violence continuing daily throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process urged the Security Council on Tuesday to adopt a more coordinated approach to the region.  

  • 30 Nov 2021

    Mogadishu - UN Officials, Federal and State Government officials, members of the civil society and donor partners gathered today to mark the launch of a new Women, Peace...

  • 30 Nov 2021

    The UN refugee Agency, UNHCR, is “appalled by a series of deadly attacks” on displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the agency’s spokesperson told journalists on Tuesday in Geneva.

  • 29 Nov 2021

    TRIPOLI, 29 November 2021 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is following with great concern the continued closure of Sebha Court of...

  • 29 Nov 2021

    The UN Secretary-General on Monday called on all Middle East States to transform the vision of a region with no nuclear weapons, or other weapons of mass destruction, into a working reality.   

  • 29 Nov 2021

    UN Photo

    UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix and UNIFIL Force...

  • 29 Nov 2021

    Out now! Season 2 | Episode 16 | She Stands For Peace | Click here: https://unoau.unmissions.org/podcast-series-she-stands-peace

  • 29 Nov 2021

    Thank you, Mr. Chair.

     

    It is a pleasure to participate in the annual session of the Peacebuilding Commission. Today’s debate on financing for peacebuilding is of crucial importance. 

     

    A month ago, the Secretary-General presented to the PBC his report Our Common Agenda, his vision for the future of global cooperation through an inclusive, networked, and effective multilateralism.  Our Common Agenda. That vision includes a new agenda for peace calling for investment in prevention and peacebuilding, including through the Peacebuilding Commission.

     

    Smart, preventive investments to tackle the underlying drivers that sustain conflict have never been as important. The COVID-19 pandemic is stretching our resources and capacities, disproportionately affecting people and places hit by conflict. And the climate crisis not only compounds the challenges we face in peace and security, it poses an existential threat to humanity.

     

    As ambitious as Our Common Agenda is, we really have no choice but to put substantial resources – financial, political and human – to work to build a more peaceful, environmentally sound, stable and sustainable future.

     

    We need to build on the current momentum and ensure adequate, predictable, and sustained financing for peacebuilding.

     

    This idea is at the core of the twin General Assembly and Security Council resolutions adopted at the conclusion of the 2015 and 2020 Peacebuilding Architecture Reviews. The Peacebuilding Commission plays a key role in our concerted effort to help achieve this important objective ahead of the High-Level Meeting on Financing for Peacebuilding.

     

    I would like to point to four key areas that are particularly relevant to consider in this context.

     

    First, sustained financing for peacebuilding is instrumental for our ongoing work on strengthening coherence across the peace and security continuum, including the work conducted by special political missions in close cooperation with development actors, regional partners and civil society organizations.

     

    Special political missions play a critical role, supporting Member States to prevent, manage and resolve conflicts. Our regional office for West Africa, for example, continues to respond to high demand for preventive diplomacy in the region. Working side-by-side with ECOWAS and the African Union, UNOWAS has engaged with authorities and other actors to help build consensus regarding the way forward in political and security processes.

     

    If we are to effectively support Member States on trust, inclusion, social cohesion, and human rights – elements that are at the heart of Our Common Agenda and our collective work on peacebuilding – we need to continue to insist on improving coherence. Adequate, predictable, and sustained financing will allow for better incentives and can foster further collaboration across the UN system.

     

     

    Second, the strong linkages among peacemaking, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and development are mutually reinforcing. Financing for peacebuilding is key, for example, in safeguarding peacekeeping gains. This ensures effective transitions and averts a “financial cliff” after a mission leaves. Peacebuilding has helped prevent relapses into conflict in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone notably.

     

    The dedicated Peacebuilding Fund window is a welcome contribution in this respect, with a total of $35 million invested in 2020. The transition in Darfur, for example, shows the importance of complementing resources of peacekeeping operations with the PBF investment. It enabled the UN Country Team to continue catalytic peacebuilding programmes after UNAMID’s closure. It also contributed to supporting the new integrated mandate of our special political mission, UNITAMS.

     

    We expect that the largest share of PBF investments during the 2020-2024 strategic period will be directed to support countries undergoing complex transitions when UN configurations on the ground change.

     

    Third, we continue to strengthen our partnerships with international financial institutions and regional development banks, which in recent years have resulted in more in-depth analysis of fragility factors and better understanding of conflict drivers.

    This shift towards prevention, conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding in the International Financial Institutions and the resources they bring to bear towards those objectives are potential game changers.

     

    We should not lose sight of the urgent need to make these partnerships more systematic through regular joint analysis and assessments. The creation of a Humanitarian-Development-Peacebuilding and Partnership Facility (HDPP) is contributing in a significant way to this effort, enabling the UN’s field presences to better interact with the World Bank.

     

    Examples of good partnership also include:

    • the establishment of joint information management platforms in the North/Northeast region of Kenya and in Niger;
    • joint analysis increasing coherence in responses, for instance, in Burkina Faso and Mozambique;
    • strategic, technical and operational contributions to prevention and transition action plans supported through the World Bank’s new financing instruments.

     

    We also look forward to deepening our engagement with the International Monetary Fund, in the context of its upcoming Fragility and Conflict-affected States Strategy, and regional development banks, such as the African Development Bank. There is also scope for synergy on climate risk mitigation, since climate change is a risk multiplier in many conflict settings, such as in the Sahel and Horn of Africa.

     

    We should also continue to explore stronger partnerships with the private sector. An initiative with a blended finance facility in Colombia that leveraged close to seven times the funding capital from the private sector is a powerful example that innovative financing solutions can fill the gap in peacebuilding contexts.

     

    Fourth, as Our Common Agenda acknowledges, demand for support from the Peacebuilding Fund significantly outpaces available resources. As the UN’s instrument of first resort to support peacebuilding, the Fund needs additional resources.

     

    The recourse to voluntary, extrabudgetary contributions obscures the fact that prevention and peacebuilding are structural and central objectives of the UN and the Charter obligations.

     

    Voluntary contributions are insufficient: the PBF is currently $90 million below its target for 2021. The Secretary-General’s recommendation to allocate a dedicated amount ($100 million) to the PBF from assessed contributions would indeed have a strong symbolic value.

     

    Additional and more predictable funding would enable the UN to, for example, increase its support for women-led and women-focused peacebuilding initiatives, as urged by many women peacebuilders who have briefed the PBC in the past.  More resources for peacebuilding activities would also strengthen the work special political missions are playing in promoting women’s and youth participation in peace and political processes.

     

    Excellencies,

     

    As Peacebuilding Commission Members know best of all, scaled-up preventive action could prevent loss of human life and incalculable suffering.

     

    Adequate, predictable and sustained financing, including through assessed contributions, will allow the UN, through its Peacebuilding Fund, to grow its investments in support of Our Common Agenda.

     

    I look forward to hearing from you on how we can collectively achieve this ambitious objective.

     

    Thank you.

     

  • 29 Nov 2021

    The situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, continues to pose a significant challenge to international peace and security, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, said on Monday. 

  • 27 Nov 2021

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    Excellency President of the Presidency Council, Dr. Mohamed Almenfi...

  • 26 Nov 2021
    This Week in DPPA is a brief roundup of political and peacebuilding events and developments at UNHQ and around the world. 

     

    Security Council

    Hennis-Plasschaert: “Iraq cannot afford its national interest to be neglected” 

    Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), briefed the Security Council on 23 November regarding last month’s elections. She noted that the polls had been assessed as generally peaceful, well run, and featuring significant technical and procedural improvements. But, she observed, there was a severe lack of trust: between parties, between parties and institutions, and between parties and authorities, in addition to the longstanding lack of public trust in both politicians and institutions. “Iraq cannot afford its national interest to be neglected,” she urged. The Special Representative repeated the UN’s consistent call for political dialogue to prevail, adding that outstanding electoral concerns must only be dealt with through established legal channels. "The importance of a sound and inclusive government formation process cannot be overstated", she stressed. 

    Full remarks at the Security Council here 

     

     
    Kubiš urges Libyan actors to ensure inclusive, free, fair parliamentary and presidential elections 

    Ján Kubiš, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), briefed the Security Council on 24 November from Tripoli on the process leading up to the 24 December elections. He warned that the political climate in Libya remained heavily polarized, noting that vocal opposition to the holding of elections on the basis of the existing legal framework persists. He called on all those that challenge the process or the candidates to channel them through the existing judicial mechanisms and to fully respect the verdict of the judicial authority. He said that the presence of foreign fighters and mercenaries continues to be of concern, although the ceasefire has continued to hold. He also noted that he had tendered his resignation on 17 November 2021, which the Secretary-General had accepted, effective as of 10 December 2021. 

    Full remarks at the Security Council here 

     

    Afghanistan

     

    UNAMA Head meets with UK, European Commission officials 

    Deborah Lyons, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) met on 23 November with Lord Tariq Ahmad, British Minister for South Asia, the United Nations and the Commonwealth, to discuss the humanitarian situation, human rights and girls' education in Afghanistan. In Brussels, on 24 November, the Special Representative discussed health care, food and lifesaving assistance with European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) Director General Paraskevi Michou.

     

    Deputy Special Representative visits Kandahar 

    In Kandahar on 25 November, Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Mette Knudsen met with senior Taliban representatives, the business community and women leaders. The latter shared their concerns about restrictions on freedom of movement and access to education and work. Ms. Knudsen reiterated the UN’s support for the rights of all Afghans and that these issues were being raised by the UN “day-in day-out" with the Taliban.   

     

    Central Asia

    Central Asian water-energy and environment experts discuss regional strategy 

    The United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) organized an online meeting on 26 November of water-energy and environment experts of the Central Asian states Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The attendants discussed the draft text of the updated UNRCCA strategy in support of water, energy and environmental cooperation among the states of Central Asia for 2022-2025. The experts agreed that the review process will continue under the auspices of UNRCCA at the next meeting in December. 

    Read more here 

     

    Iraq

    Special Representative Hennis-Plasschaert discusses post elections 

    On 25 November, Special Representative Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert met in Baghdad with Fateh Coalition Chairman Hadi Al-Ameri. She expressed hope that the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission and Electoral Judicial Panel would give full consideration to all appeals independently. She also urged all parties to find serious political solutions and form an inclusive government that meets the expectations of the Iraqi people.

     

    Yemen

    Special Envoy Grundberg visits Egypt and Russia 

    Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy for Yemen, concluded his visit to Egypt on 24 November. He told his interlocutors, including the Egyptian Foreign Minister, the head of the League of Arab States (LAS) and a diverse group of Yemeni men and women who are in Egypt, that piecemeal approaches would not result in a sustainable solution. Discussions in Cairo also included recent military developments in Yemen, including in Hudaydah, and the worsening humanitarian situation. He then travelled to Moscow where he met with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Vershinin Sergey Vasilievich and Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov. The Special Envoy thanked Russia for its sustained support to the UN’s peacemaking efforts in Yemen.  

    Read more here 

     

    Great Lakes Region

    Technical Support Committee of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework discusses developments in the Great Lakes Region 
     
    Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, opened the 29th meeting of the Technical Support Committee (TSC) of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region, held virtually on 23 November. Participants discussed key political and security developments, and reviewed initiatives in support of the implementation of the Framework. 

    West Africa and the Sahel

    Open Day on Women, Peace and Security in Guinea-Bissau

    In Guinea-Bissau on 23 November, Special Representative and Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamet Saleh Annadif, together with the President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, chaired the Regional Open Day on the implementation of Security Council Resolutions 1325 and subsequent resolutions on women, peace and security. The Open Day brought together nearly a hundred women and young leaders from West Africa and the Sahel, as well as government representatives from the region. They spoke about new initiatives to be put in place to prevent conflicts and consolidate peace, and ways to accelerate the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in West Africa and the Sahel.  

    Read more here

     

    Special Representative takes part in Mano River Union meeting on Guinea 

    At the Extraordinary Session of Foreign Ministers of the Mano River Union on Guinea in Monrovia, Liberia on 22 November, Special Representative Annadif said that the meeting was the expression of an active solidarity of the geographical neighbors. He added that the “coordination and complementarity of our various initiatives, in particular from the neighbors of Guinea, will be the guarantee of our success in helping an inclusive and peaceful transition in the country”. 

     

     
    33rd Session of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission concludes in Yaoundé 

    Special Representative and Chairman of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission (CNMC) Annadif, chaired the 33rd session of the CNMC in Yaoundé, Cameroon on 19 and 20 November. Amadou Ali, Vice-Prime Minister and Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, led the delegations of Cameroon and Nigeria, respectively. During the meeting, the Mixed Commission expressed its readiness to work closely with the Parties in order to identify and to recommend the implementation of trans-border infrastructural projects to enhance the economic cooperation and the integration of the two countries and the region. 

    Full Communiqué here 

     
     

    Colombia

    Guterres: “Peace does not occur overnight. It is hard to build, take care of, and sustain” 

    Secretary-General António Guterres travelled to Colombia on 22 November to participate in celebrations of the Fifth Anniversary of the signing of the 2016 Final Peace Agreement between the Government of Colombia and the former FARC-EP. On 23 November, together with the President of Colombia, Iván Duque Márquez, Guterres was in Llano Grande, in the province of Antioquia, visiting a Training and Reintegration area. While there, he said that he appreciated having the opportunity to listen to community members, indigenous and Government authorities. The Secretary-General pointed out that they know better than anyone that peace does not occur overnight. It is hard to build, take care of, and sustain, he emphasized. Guterres then travelled on to Apartadó to learn about the progress of the Territorial Development Programme in the region. Back in Bogotá, on 24 November, the Secretary-General participated in the commemoration of the Fifth Anniversary of the signing of the Final Peace Agreement. He said the anniversary provided an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the Final Peace Agreement, acknowledge the challenges it faces, and “renew our collective commitment to fulfill its promise to build a stable and lasting peace”. 

    Read more here 

     

    Virtual Reality experience on Colombia peace process 

    To bring the Colombian peace process closer to decision-makers in New York and have Colombian public voices heard more broadly, the UN Verification Mission in Colombia and DPPA produced the Virtual Reality (VR) experience “Pathways Colombia”. As the country commemorates the fifth anniversary of the signing of the 2016 Final Peace Agreement, the film focuses on the challenges and opportunities of peace consolidation in Colombia, including reintegration, security, and reconciliation efforts. “Pathways Colombia” comprises three immersive episodes focusing on the reintegration of former combatants, security challenges and reconciliation efforts. The launch event of the VR experience was hosted by the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom and attended by Security Council members and the Colombian Permanent Mission to the UN.  

    Watch “Pathways Colombia” 

     

    Peacebuilding

    Thematic Review on Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding 

    The UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) just published the Thematic Review on Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding, commissioned by PBSO in partnership with the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO) and UN Women. The review maps good practices, gaps, challenges, emerging trends and priorities for action in gender-responsive peacebuilding and draws on consultations with women’s organizations in Guatemala, Mali, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka. 

    Read the full report here  

     
    Global Call for Nominations  

    The Secretary-General’s Global Call for Nominations campaign to identify Heads and Deputy Heads for United Nations Field Missions has been extended until 10 December. The Global Call aims to expand the pool of candidates for the USG/ASG level positions of Special Representative of the Secretary-General and their deputies.

    For more information

     

    16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence 

    UN in Lebanon urges action to end and prevent gender-based violence 

    From 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to 10 December, International Human Rights Day, the United Nations System in Lebanon, the Sexual and Gender-based Violence Taskforce (SGBV TF) and the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) are joining forces, for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), to urge actions to end and prevent gender-based violence in the country. The campaign calls for the commitment of state institutions in the adoption of specialized and comprehensive laws and policies that prevent and protect women and girls from GBV. Increasing collective efforts are needed in ending gender-based violence including from national institutions and policy makers, the humanitarian and the development system, the donors, the community leaders, all women, men, girls. 

    Read more here 

     

    Next Week

    Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland will brief on the Middle East Peace Process on 29 November.  

    Launch event: Thematic Review on Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding  

    Join a virtual launch event on 1 December, 9-10 am EST to hear from a panel of policymakers and practitioners on what some of the Review findings and recommendations mean in practice.  

    RSVP here 

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  • 26 Nov 2021

    ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan

    Within the framework of the UNRCCA’s...

  • 26 Nov 2021

    Mogadishu - International partners* urge the completion of inclusive and credible House of the People elections acceptable by all electoral...

  • 26 Nov 2021

    UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg (R) with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Vershinin Sergey...

  • 25 Nov 2021

    © UNSMIL/M. ALASAADI

    TRIPOLI, 25 November 2021 - Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Libya, and Head of UNSMIL, Ján Kubiš, along with Assistant...

  • 25 Nov 2021

    THE UNITED NATIONS, THE SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE TASKFORCE AND THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR...

  • 24 Nov 2021

    KABUL - On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW), the United Nations in Afghanistan calls on everyone...

  • 24 Nov 2021

    Bogotá, 24 November 2021. On the last day of his visit to Colombia, the Secretary-General of the United Nations,...

  • 24 Nov 2021

    The signing of the Final Peace Agreement five years ago generated hope and inspiration in Colombia and throughout the international community, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday that the achievements are undeniable, and the country’s people should be proud.

  • 24 Nov 2021

    The Security Council welcomes the Paris International Conference for Libya which was convened on 12 November 2021, the Declaration issued by the participants (S/2021/958) and the...

  • 24 Nov 2021

    With one month left until elections in Libya, it is important that the international community remains united in support of the process, UN Special Envoy Ján Kubiš told the Security Council on Wednesday. 

  • 24 Nov 2021

    The President of Guinea-Bissau and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General exchange views with women and youth on their contribution...

  • 24 Nov 2021

    @Egypt's MOFA

    Amman, 24 November 2021 - The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, concluded today a visit to Cairo where he met...

  • 24 Nov 2021

     

    FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF COLOMBIA'S FINAL PEACE AGREEMENT 

    Bogotá, 24 November 2021  

     

    Dear friend President Iván Duque, 

    Dear...

  • 23 Nov 2021

    In Colombia to mark the fifth anniversary of the peace accord between the Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC-EP, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday visited a small mountainside village he described as a “laboratory of peace”, where former combatants and civilians are living and working side-by-side.

  • 23 Nov 2021

    Following “hard-earned” parliamentary elections on 10 October, Iraqis of all political stripes must exercise restraint, eschew violence and await the outcome’s final certification by the Federal Supreme Court, the senior UN official in the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.

  • 23 Nov 2021

    New York, 24 November 2021

    Violence against women and girls continues to be the most pervasive and pressing human rights issue in the world today.  

    It is both an abhorrent crime and a public health emergency, with far-reaching consequences for millions of women and girls in every corner of the globe.

    ...
  • 23 Nov 2021

    War-torn Yemen is among the poorest countries in the world, but recovery is possible if the conflict ends now, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report published on Tuesday. 

  • 23 Nov 2021

    Bogotá, 23 November 2021. UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, concluded his visit to the department of...

  • 22 Nov 2021

    Bogotá, 22 November 2021. United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Bogotá on Monday to begin his two...

  • 22 Nov 2021

    Beginning on 7 December, ministers from around the world will discuss the technology and medical capacity building of UN Peacekeeping, UN officials said at a press conference on Monday. 

  • 22 Nov 2021

    Bissau, 23 November 2021 - H.E. Umaro Sissoco Embaló, President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, and Mahamat Saleh ANNADIF, Special...

  • 22 Nov 2021

    Small arms trafficking is a “defining factor in undermining peace and security”, the Director of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) told the Security Council on Monday during a ministerial debate. 

  • 22 Nov 2021

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres is headed to Colombia this week to mark the fifth anniversary of the signing of the peace accords that ended 50 years of conflict in the country, and his activities will include travel to the village of Llano Grande, where the townspeople and former combatants are working together to secure a better future.

  • 20 Nov 2021

    Yaoundé, 20 November 2021

    The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission established pursuant to the Joint Communiqué adopted at the Summit...