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Central African Republic: Urgent action required to address human rights violations in places of detention - UN report

GENEVA/BANGUI - Urgent and concrete action is required to ensure respect for human rights in places of detention in the Central African Republic (CAR), where torture and ill-treatment, illegal and arbitrary arrest and detention, maln

18 Jul 2024

Special Representative of the Secretary-General statement to the UN Security Council

Mr. President of the Security Council, Distinguished Members of the Council,

27 Jun 2024

World Refugee Day | Secretary-General's message

From Sudan to Ukraine, from the Middle East to Myanmar to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and beyond, conflict, climate chaos and upheaval are forcing record numbers of people from their homes and fueling profound human suffering.

20 Jun 2024

Visit of the Acting Military Adviser of UN Department of Peace Operations to Bouar

On May 23, 2024, at the head of a large delegation, Acting Military Advisor Major General Cheryl Pearce visited MINUSCA troops stationed in Bouar.

23 May 2024

MINUSCA remembers: 30th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

06 May 2024

World Press Freedom Day | UN Secretary-General's Message

The world is going through an unprecedented environmental emergency which poses an existential threat to this and future generations.

People need to know about this – and journalists and media workers have a key role in informing and educating them.

03 May 2024

Special Representative of the Secretary-General Statement to the UN Security Council

H.E. Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, President of the Security Council,

21 Feb 2024

Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on the Central African Republic

The Secretary-General condemns the killing on 15 January of one Cameroonian peacekeeper from the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and the wounding of five others, including two seriously, by an explosive in Mbi

16 Jan 2024