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African child holds desert's sand in his hands. A village in the background.
© UNICEF/Raphael Pouget
Children

UNICEF: new report on the effects of climate change on children in Africa

A shot of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) found last week, photographed at the Air Safety Unit of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, held a briefing today showing the CVR, and said that nothing heard so far on the tape links that CVR to the aircraft crash of 6 April 1994 in Rwanda. The Office of Internal Oversight Services took the CVR to the United States National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, D.C., where it was opened in the presence of experts from the International Civil Aviation Organization. Killed in the 1994 plane crash were Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda, and Cyprian Ntayamira, President of Burundi. Their deaths set off a chain of killings and massacres throughout Rwanda that year, with the death toll from the genocide mounting to more than 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
© UN Photo/Evan Schneider
Rwanda

The United Nations and the Rwandan genocide

Movie poster for the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Drawing of an African woman on a blue background thinking of a dove, symbol of peace
Women Peace and Security (WPS)

Screening of the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008) by Gini Reticker (V.O.S.), Padova, 11 October 2023

UN: High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development
United Nations

UN High-Level Dialogue urges tax reforms amidst rising illicit financial flows

A group of women in Um Baru, North Darfur.
© UNAMID/Hamid Abdulsalam
United Nations

International Criminal Court: launched investigation into surging violence in Darfur

Ethiopian army & the Ethiopian’s Gambella Regional Governor Mr. Gatluak Tut, received returned abducted children in May 2016
© Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation
Children

Identifying the Causes and Implications of Murle Child Abduction Practice, and its Impacts on Children: A Case Study on Ethiopia's Gambella Region and South Sudan Border

human rights

Sudan violations in spot-light at UN Human Rights Council

War/Conflict

Sudan: UN rights chief calls for a return to talks, amid fragile ceasefire

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United Nations

United Nations: Peace in South Sudan depends on local accountability

Kenya

Kenya, heralding a new era?

Flags of member nations flying at United Nations Headquarters. 30/Dec/2005.
© UN Photo/Joao Araujo Pinto.
human rights

United Nations: Opening of the trial for the 2009 massacre in Guinea

Black woman smiling
© EPA
discrimination

OHCHR: New #FightRacism campaign - Learn, Speak up, Act!

Migrants’ makeshift shelters in the city of Agadez.
human rights

IOM Study: Women and Girls Most Trafficked in Niger

Changing the position of women in the field of security in the Central African Republic
© MINUSCA/Hervé Serefio
women

Breaking prison barriers in the Central African Republic: changing the position of women in the field of security

Hands offering bread
women

UNDP report 2022: The war in Ukraine and the new crisis looming in Africa