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United Nations partners with Member States to train peacekeepers to prevent sexual exploitation & abuse
- Action Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA)
United Nations partners with Member States to train peacekeepers to prevent sexual exploitation & abuse
As part of its broader efforts to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse, the United Nations works in partnership with troop and police contributing countries to raise awareness about the problem among personnel before their…
Kananga makes its commitment for Peace. Photo MONUSCO/Anne Herrmann
Kananga makes its commitment for Peace
Kananga – 23rd September 2017: Roughly 500 people gathered at the Independence square in Kananga to brainstorm and commit themselves to Peace, a theme chosen by MONUSCO to commemorate the International Day of Peace. A year…
MONUSCO is gravely concerned by the use of lethal weapons by Congolese defense and security forces in a crowd control operation in Bukavu
MONUSCO is gravely concerned by the use of lethal weapons by Congolese defense and security forces in a crowd control operation in Bukavu
KINSHASA, Sep. 25, 2017 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of MONUSCO, Maman Sidikou, is gravely concerned by the use of lethal force by Congolese defense…
General Commis (MONUSCO) and General Kasereka (FARDC) refining the protection plan of the city of Uvira. Photo MONUSCO/Bilamekaso Tchagbele
MONUSCO deploys troops to protect civilian in Uvira
KINSHASA, Sep. 28, 2017 – In response to clashes between presumed armed groups and the Congolese national army (FARDC) in the area of Uvira (South Kivu province), the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the…
Older people looking through a window. Photo MONUSCO/Abel Kavanagh
- Human Rights
United Nations International Day of Older Persons : Younger generations must act now to stamp out human rights denials in old age – UN expert
GENEVA (29 September 2017) – The UN Independent Expert on older people’s rights, Rosa Kornfeld-Matte, is marking the International day of Older Persons (1 October) by urging those in power today to provide decent futures for…
Radio Okapi reopens its broadcasting station in Kananga. Photo MONUSCO/Anne Herrmann
Radio Okapi reopens its broadcasting station in Kananga
Kananga – 2 October 2017: Radio Okapi has resumed broadcasting locally in the Kasaï-Central province from Monday through Friday; the populations of the Kasaï-Central province can now listen to local news and programs in…
MONUSCO raises awareness of roads users on road signs. Photo MONUSCO/Amuri Aleka
MONUSCO raises awareness of roads users on road signs
Kalemie – 5th October 2017 – After donating 83 road signs to Kalemie officials and Congolese National Police, the Mission organized a series of awareness sessions on the road signs for the different categories of roads users…
Goma - DDRRR Community Violence Reduction (CVR) Workshop. Photo MONUSCO/Martha Biongo
Goma - DDRRR Community Violence Reduction (CVR) Workshop
MONUSCO North Kivu DDRRR Section has reported that at least 2,000 people, including 462 demobilized and 370 vulnerable women, have already been direct beneficiaries of the first phase of the Community Violence Reduction…
MONUSCO repels deadly attack by suspected ADF in Mamundioma; reinforcements deployed to secure the location. Photo MONUSCO/Force
MONUSCO repels deadly attack by suspected ADF in Mamundioma; reinforcements deployed to secure the location
KINSHASA, October 9, 2017 – In the early hours of Monday morning, MONUSCO repelled an attack by suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on a MONUSCO position in Mamundioma, North Kivu province, during which the Mission…
Raising Awareness on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the North Kivu Community. Photo MONUSCO/Martha Biongo
- Action Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA)
Raising Awareness on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the North Kivu Community
The MONUSCO Conduct and Discipline Team (CDT) has organized a series of awareness-raising activities in the communities of North Kivu on the dangers of sexual abuse and exploitation by MONUSCO and UN staff in general. This…