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08 March 2017 - A young female South Sudanese is using paint to create vivid images that picture the plight of the elderly women in the South Sudanese communities she grew up in. “If you look at all the wrinkles that she has…
08 March 2016 - “As they grow up, girls must be exposed to a broad range of careers,” says UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on International Women’s Day celebrated across the world today. The theme for…
Good afternoon. President of the Security Council briefed you I was not there when he did but from what I understand on the main conclusion and outcomes of the Geneva 4th round of talks and I will be doing my own comments on…
For Arabic version click here . Mr. President, 1. Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council following the fourth round of intra- Syrian talks that concluded in Geneva last Friday, 3 March 2017. I will be…
UNMIL Corrections and Gender Units today supported Liberia Bureau of Corrections and Rehabilitation to hold an awareness forum on the Sexual and Gender-based Violence at the Monrovia Central Prison. The event sensitized…
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Written message on International Women’s Day New York, 8 March 2017 Women’s rights are human rights. But in these troubled times, as our world becomes more unpredictable and chaotic, the rights of women and girls are being…
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SG: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, thank you very much for your presence. I decided that I would make in Baidoa my first field visit of my tenure as Secretary-General of the United Nations. And the reason…
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BAGHLAN - The advocacy role of young Afghans in working with government to fight corruption and promote women’s equality in the workplace was the focus of an open debate and televised roundtable discussion in north-eastern…
New York, 8 March 2017 - Women’s rights are human rights. But in these troubled times, as our world becomes more unpredictable and chaotic, the rights of women and girls are being reduced, restricted and reversed. Empowering…
The Minister of Defense of Lebanon, Yaacoub Sarraf, today visited the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Naqoura, south Lebanon, and met with the UNIFIL Head of Mission of Force Commander…
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Hearing the heart-wrenching stories of desperate families displaced in Somalia, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today urged a massive scale up in international support to avert a famine in the drought…
“The most striking image that we have seen on the ground is the image of desolation, you see abandoned villages, abandoned houses, the markets that are not functioning anymore; to me this was the most striking image, " says…