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The United Nations has commenced training of Galmudug State Assembly members to strengthen their legislative capacities, as part of ongoing efforts to build nascent Federal State institutions in Somalia. The training…
Five more members of parliament were elected today to the House of the People in the ongoing electoral process in Baidoa and Jowhar, the administrative capitals of South West and HirShabelle States. The election in Baidoa…
HERAT - The story of an Afghan girl who convinces her family to let her complete her schooling, rather than get married, was at the centre of a series of UNAMA-backed theatre performances in the country’s western Herat…
Joint Statement ECOWAS- COMMONWEALTH- UNITED NATIONS The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Marcel Alain de Souza, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Dr. Josephine Ojiambo, and the Special Representative…
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) Michael Keating and the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia Francisco Madeira visited Cadaado…
Four more candidates were elected to the Lower House of Somalia’s Federal Parliament in the ongoing electoral process in the South West State. In Baidoa, two women were among the four candidates elected on day nine of…
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – On 26 November, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the office of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) in Ashgabat during his official visit to Turkmenistan…
Gender-based violence is the most extreme form of the universal and systemic inequality experienced by women and girls. It knows no geographic, socio-economic or cultural boundaries. One in three women worldwide continue to…
From 25 November through 10 December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence aim to raise public awareness and mobilizing people everywhere to bring about change. In 2016, the UNiTE campaign…
Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 25 November 2016 - Said Djinnit, the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, concluded today a four-day visit to Kinshasa, Democratic…
KABUL - On today’s launch of “16 Days of Activism,” UN Women and UNAMA call for concerted national and international action by every member of society to help eliminate violence against women. November 25 is the first of 16…
Tunis - Between the 25th November and the 10th December, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Libya office, organizes a campaign in Libya to advocate and raise awareness on gender-based violence with the support of the…