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NEW YORK - Secretary-General's Message for Human Rights Day 2009. No country is free of discrimination. We see it everywhere, in many forms: old and new, covert and blatant, public and private. It may appear as…
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Dili, 10 December 2009– On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Timor-Leste (SRSG) addressed the special session of Timor-Leste's National…
9 December 2009 - The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, today met with the US Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates in Kabul, where he presented his civilian agenda…
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KABUL - Corruption is very high on the United Nations’ agenda for Afghanistan, according to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Kai Eide. Mr Eide was speaking at a news conference in Kabul organized on the…
9 December 2009 - On International Anti-Corruption Day, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan, Jean-Luc Lemahieu, issues a message. December 9 is a significant date when nations around the…
Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, said that while the Secretariat’s New Horizons initiative “would never make any headlines”, it was providing a framework for positive and broad-based…
Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, said that while the Secretariat’s New Horizons initiative “would never make any headlines”, it was providing a framework for positive and broad-based…
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8 December 2009 - A delegation led by the Assistant Secretary-General of UN Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Edmond Mulet, arrived today in El Fasher, North Darfur, in a follow-up to his visit two years ago, when the African…
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8 December 2009 -- "The Secretary-General placed on record his strong condemnation of the 5 December attack the second in two days, on troops from the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The…
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities was marked earlier this month by a roundtable discussion in the Southern Sudanese capital of Juba, and a landmark meeting in the national capital of Khartoum between…
Focusing on the importance of voluntary testing, awareness-raising and equal rights, Juba, Malakal, Wau and Khartoum celebrated World AIDS Day in early December. "People living with HIV/AIDS in Southern Sudan face…
7 December 2009 - The United Nations faces unprecedented security challenges in many regions of the world, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly’s budget committee today, as he sought support for almost $300…