Press Releases

GENEVA/PORT-AU-PRINCE (6 February 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk will conduct a two-day official mission to Haiti starting on Wednesday, 8 February, at the invitation of the Government. During the…

CAIRO - 7 February 2023- The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, launched today in Cairo a two-day meeting bringing…

CAIRO - 7 February 2023- The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, launched today in Cairo a two-day meeting bringing…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has been informed by the Malian authorities of their decision to ask the Director of the Mission's Human Rights Division and…

On January 17, 2023, in Gao, Radio Naata celebrated the reopening of its broadcasting studio in its courtyard, at the foot of the mast of its transmitter. In August 2022, a fire had destroyed all the technical equipment of…

UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Aroldo Lázaro chaired a regular Tripartite meeting at a UN position in Ras al-Naqoura today. “Through 2023 we must prioritise maintaining the cessation of hostilities,”…

UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Aroldo Lázaro chaired a regular Tripartite meeting at a UN position in Ras al-Naqoura today. “Through 2023 we must prioritise maintaining the cessation of hostilities,”…

Bamako, 25 January 2023 - The trial relating to the attack on five peacekeepers on the road to Siby (near Bamako) on 22 February 2019, which led to the death of three of them, took place before the Bamako Court of Assizes…

The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the Acting Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Ms. Giovanie BIHA, concluded today a two-day visit to Conakry, Guinea. The…

In this story series, UN Peacekeeping shows the impact of Action for Peacekeeping, which guides peace operations across 12 active missions. “This is an alert. This is not a test!” Commander Hossam Shafei, Chief of operations…