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Edmond Mulet being interviewed by UNAMA's Tilak Pokharel

Deputy Head of Peacekeeping travelled to Afghanistan

Edmond Mulet, the Deputy Chief of UN Peacekeeping, travelled to Afghanistan recently to assess the future role of the United Nations mission in the country (UNAMA). In…

30 Apr 2013 / Listen /

UN envoy says political impasse affecting progress in Haiti

Nigel Fisher, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)

A "political impasse" is affecting progress and the consolidation of democracy in Haiti, according to the head of the UN stabilization mission in the country (MINUSTAH). Nigel Fisher, Acting Special Representative of the…

22 Mar 2013 / Listen /

Deaths in detention centres doubled in 2012 in the DRC

Scott Campbell, the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The number of deaths in detention centres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) almost doubled from…

13 Mar 2013 / Listen /

Islamic extremists violate human rights in northern Mali

Mothers wait at the Gabriel Toure nutrition center in the capital, Bamako, Mali - OCHA

Human rights abuses have become systematic in northern Mali where Islamic extremists have imposed a strict interpretation of Sharia…

10 Oct 2012 / Listen /

Islamic extremists carry out cruel punishments in northern Mali

Ivan Šimonović, Senior Human Rights Advisor

Islamic extremists controlling the northern part of Mali are carrying out cruel punishments and abusing women, according to a…

10 Oct 2012 / Listen /

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