"PEACE"

The United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial meeting kicked off today in Accra, Ghana. Delegates from more than 85 countries discussed a number of issues related to peacekeeping operations, notably environmental management and how to advance the Women, Peace and Security agenda, a UN Spokesperson said. UNIFEED

Sport is one of the unifying factors in South Sudan. To build community confidence and mark 16 Days of Activism, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Yambio, held a week-long basketball tournament with local populations. UNMISS

“The Gaza Strip is once again the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. After seven days of respite from horrific violence, fighting has resumed. More children will surely die as a result,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement. UNICEF

A UN spokesperson said that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) “notes with concern that exchanges of fire across the Blue Line continued throughout the weekend, with reports that people were injured on both sides of the border.” UNIFEED

The UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Somalia, Anita Kiki Gbeho, congratulated the Somali Government "for reaching significant milestones in the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities.” UNSOM

In Bazungua, South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, some 200 community members were sensitized on preventing and ending gender-based violence at an UNMISS-facilitated workshop as part of the ongoing commemorations for 16 Days of Activism. UNMISS

The Security Council adopted a resolution that terminates the mandate of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) as of 3 December. UNIFEED

In the capital of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, Yambio, children marched, danced, performed dramas and recited powerful poetry while handing over their petition demanding better protection of their rights as they marked World Children’s Day, globally commemorated on 20 November every year. UNMISS

“I must echo loud and clear what our colleagues in Gaza have just stressed. The bombs have got to stop. Again civilians are living a nightmare. Again we are receiving reports of bombings in northern Gaza, in the middle of Gaza. Reports of leaflets being dropped on Khan Younis telling civilians to flee,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office. UNTV CH

With the resumption of military operations in the Gaza strip in the early hours of Friday, UN humanitarians on Friday called for an immediate halt of hostilities in the war-shattered Palestinian enclave and called on parties and States with influence to ensure a ceasefire. UNTV CH