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Domestic Violence in Kosovo At the Liria women's shelter in Gjilan/Gnjilane, Igballe Hajdari (right), a clothing designer who trains and employs domestic violence survivors, is showing her employees' latest creations to the…
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9 April 2014 - The special Adviser of the United Nations Secretary General for genocide prevention Adama Dieng on Tuesday afternoon started a three-day working visit in Burundi as part of a sub-regional tour. The Special…
NEW YORK - The Secretary-General congratulates the people of Afghanistan on Saturday’s historic Presidential and Provincial Council elections. The elections mark an important step forward in Afghanistan’s first democratic…
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KABUL - As Afghans throng to polling centres across the country today to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai and members of 34 Provincial Councils, the top United Nations official in the country has congratulated the…
KABUL - As Afghans prepare for Presidential and Provincial Council elections, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) highlights the importance of domestic observers, as well as candidate and party agents…
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KABUL - Ahead of the end to the official campaigning period tonight for candidates in Afghanistan's landmark Presidential and Provincial Council elections, the top United Nations official in the country today urged Afghans…
As part of its training, information-sharing and sensitisation activities in support of the Ivorian Government, the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has initiated a series of training sessions on human rights…
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NEW YORK / KINSHASA (9 April 2014) – Rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remain very serious concerns, with thousands of victims, in particular in the east of the country, over the past four…
9 April 2013 - Unity State youth today pledged to spread messages about living together peacefully to counterparts across South Sudan at the conclusion of a two-day forum in the capital Bentiu.Some 40 youth, who were selected…
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KABUL - An official from one of Afghanistan’s electoral bodies today reiterated his commitment to ensuring that legitimate votes would be separated from any fraudulent votes in last Saturday’s Presidential and Provincial…
It is not often that royalty descends on Liberia, but that is exactly what happened on Thursday, 20 March, when Jordan’s HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein and her entourage embarked on a one-day whirlwind tour of parts of…
On 4 April 2014, 488 officers, junior officers, and soldiers from the 14th Senegalese battalion (SENBATT) of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) based in Yamoussoukro, were decorated with the United Nations…