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Burundi inaugurates Independent National Human Rights Commissioners

Burundi inaugurates Independent National Human Rights Commissioners

Hosting Justice Mohamed Othman Chande. Read the full transcript

According to the most recent country-wide needs assessment, 2.4 million people, one in three Somalis, are in need of humanitarian assistance, a 20 percent increase in the number of vulnerable compared to the second half of 2010. The increase is due to a combination of drought, skyrocketing food…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Participants from nineteen countries and the European Union, international and regional organizations, financial institutions, business and academia arrived in Ashgabat for a two-day meeting to discuss concrete projects on economic cooperation between Central Asia and…

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06 June 2011 - Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye, the Military Advisor to the United Nations Headquarters, visited the troubled Sudanese region of Abyei and the other two likely flashpoints of the country, namely the Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States on 02 and 03 June 2011. The General was…

5 June 2011 - Nearly 20 years after the 1992 Earth Summit, the world is once again on the road to Rio – the site of the June 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Much has changed in the past two decades, geopolitically and environmentally. Hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Latin…

On 3 May 2011, the Somali Government presented its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report for consideration by the Human Rights Council (HRC), in Geneva, a major achievement in terms of the TFG's engagement with international human rights mechanisms, particularly given the backdrop of on-going…

The 19th meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia (ICG) was held under the chairmanship of the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Augustine P. Mahiga, from 2 to 3 June 2011 in Kampala, Uganda. During the opening, the meeting was addressed by…