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Port-Au-Prince, 18 February 2020.- A UN report on gang violence in Port-au-Prince has found that the Haitian authorities failed to adequately protect residents of a poor neighbourhood of the capital. The joint report by the…

The Secretary-General is alarmed by the rapid deterioration of the humanitarian situation in northwest Syria and the tragic suffering of civilians. The ongoing offensive has displaced almost 900,000 civilians since 1 December…

The announcement by the Presidency of South Sudan to return to 10 states is an important compromise to enable the timely formation of the transitional government as promised to the citizens of South Sudan. Under a new…

UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 266 - 17 Feb 2020

NEW YORK - The Secretary-General has been following closely the talks between the United States and the Taliban about a significant reduction of violence in Afghanistan aimed at opening the way for intra-Afghan peace…

Earlier today, the UN Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus (OSASG), together with the World Bank, launched a Gender sensitive Socio-economic Impact Assessment of a settlement to the Cyprus issue…

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UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 265 - 07Feb to 13 Feb 2020

The United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security held its 18th consultative meeting at the African Union Headquarters in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia on 11 February 2020. During the meeting the Joint Task…

TRIPOLI - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) welcomes the adoption by the Security Council of Resolution 2510 (2020), which: endorses the Conclusions of the International Conference on Libya held in Berlin…