Peacekeeping news

As custodians of the buffer zone UNFICYP is committed to minimizing our carbon footprint and preserving our shared environment. With the onset of a hot dry summer in Cyprus UN peacekeepers from the UK clear patrol tracks of…

Meet Constantia, a private educator living in Deryneia; She highlights the importance of supporting women who are staying at home as care providers. Since the health crisis began Constantia has been with her two children (3…

Women are playing a disproportionately large role worldwide in preventing and responding to the Covid-19 crisis. Globally, women constitute 70% of the health workforce. Didem’s story is a reminder of the essential…

Pacification of Ituri : Leila Zerrougui interacts with national members of parliament from this province. Poto MONUSCO/ChernoJallow The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in the Democratic Republic…

UNIFIL peacekeepers from the Republic of Korea today handed over a public water purification plant, which they built over the past two months, to the local community in Abbasiyah, Tyre district in south-western Lebanon. The…

Many survivors of the widespread and pervasive sexual violence that has plagued South Sudan throughout its five-year civil war suffer not only from the sexual assault, but also an inability to access the health care they need…

Survivors of conflict-related sexual violence continue to struggle to access adequate medical and mental health care, according to a new report issued by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the UN Human Rights…

Lydia Mpeh, a United Nations Volunteer serving in Rumbek, South Sudan, as a frontline health worker with UNMISS, is committed to continuing her vital work here despite the threat of COVID-19 to her own health and wellbeing…

The completion of repair work on the Wau-Raja road will be a welcome boost for local residents, peacekeepers and humanitarians alike. The People of Raja County in Western Bahr El Ghazal State will soon enjoy easy access to…

UNIFIL, its strategic partner the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and fellow UN peacekeepers today paid their last respects to a Ghanaian soldier who recently succumbed to an illness while serving for peace in south Lebanon. A 28…

Radio shows and public service announcements on how to keep the Coronavirus at bay are being financed by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. A joint, statewide COVID-19 awareness campaign in Jonglei is tapping into the…

Two severely wounded South Sudanese men have received life-saving care from the Sri Lankan medical team serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in Bor. Two severely wounded South Sudanese men have received life…