Showing 1841-1850 of 2250 results found.
Luca Guanziroli: Reflections on an effective strategy to fight against child labor in mines and qua
Luca Guanziroli, UNV Child Protection Officer at UNICEF, is in charge of the programs that fight against child labor in artisanal mines and quarries in Katanga and Kasai as well as of the related development of corporate…
Goma under alert
Mid-November, the UN-staff based in Goma spent a long, anxious and frustrating weekend at the MONUSCO compound. Anxiety, an understandable feeling when you hear the shots not far from the city. But, above all, frustration…
‘‘’When you start working for the UN, it becomes very difficult to come back to a quiet life''
For most of us, being a UN Volunteer provides a first experience within the United Nations system and a unique opportunity to understand what means "working in the field". This is not the case for Philip Harris! When Philip…
MONUSCO trains Uvira’s and Fizi’s journalists
Uvira, 5 July 2013 – Sixty journalists from community radio stations belonging to the Network for Synergy of the Media Outlets of Uvira and Fizi territories attended a two-day training workshop from 14 to 15 June in the town…
MONUSCO renovates the maternity ward of Oicha Hospital, North Kivu province
Beni, 5 July 2013 - In Beni, North Kivu province, Nepalese peacekeepers of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo ( MONUSCO), on 3 July 2013 handed over to the local authorities a completely renovated…
Celebration of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture in Western Kasai
Kananga, 26 June 2013 – In Kananga, the provincial capital of Western Kasai, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture was celebrated on Wednesday, 26 June 2013, with a workshop for human rights activists…
The United Nations welcome that « Criminalization of torture in the DRC is moving forward »
Kinshasa/Geneva 9 July 2013 – Two years after the enactment of the law criminalizing torture, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) welcomes progress in the fight against this scourge and the first convictions…
MONUSCO celebrates arrival of Optional Protocol to Economic, Cultural and Social Rights
Beni, 8 July 2013 - As part of the activities commemorating the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office…
New Special Representative of the UN SG in the DR Congo, Martin Kobler, takes up his duties today
Kinshasa, 13 August 2013 – Martin Kobler arrived today at the Headquarters of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) to assume his duties as the Special Representative for the United…
MONUSCO Force Intervention Brigade ready to respond to armed groups in North Kivu
Goma, 14 August 2013 - Following requests from several local and foreign media, Tanzanian and South African Special Forces of the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) of MONUSCO displayed a show of force during a training…