“an open border is the most precious thing you can have in a refugee crisis”
USG for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos arrived in the DRC today for a three-day visit. She plans to go to North Kivu and other areas that are most affected by the armed violence.
"...over the weekend, Valerie Amos, USG for Humanitarian Affairs, traveled to the Tunisia-Libya border and called for urgent access in western Libya."
Today, Michelle Bachelet, ED of UN Women, announced a new peacebuilding initiative that will boost women’s roles in conflict resolution.
"...resources needed to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of victims of sexual violence in the DRC are at best inadequate, and at worst nonexistent."
"Alain Le Roy and Yury Fedotov launched the UNODC and DPKO Joint Plan of Action, designed to strengthen the agencies’ partnership...on integrating drugs and crime control into peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions."
The High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned authorities in Yemen against any violent repression against planned protests today.
Today through Friday, March 4, the second PrepCom of the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty will be held in NY.
According to a new report released by UNICEF today, investing in the world’s 1.2 billion adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 now can break entrenched cycles of poverty and inequality.