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UN teams on the ground in Armenia are providing vital support to help address the needs of over 100,000 refugees who recently fled the Karabakh region.

UN teams on the ground in Armenia are providing vital support to help address the needs of over 100,000 refugees who recently fled the Karabakh region.

EASTERN EQUATORIA - “Engagements between military personnel and communities in Ikotos is a vital process that we urge the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) to help us arrange,” stated Grace Abalang, a member of the National Legislative Assembly representing Ikotos county in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state.“For true peace to prevail, there must be trust

The youth of today fight a system led by those who have no plans for the future beyond their term in office.

South Sudan: Ikotos residents appeal for civil-military dialogues to help build confidence and peace

Entrepreneurship is playing a vital role in tackling gender bias in male dominated sectors. A report by the UN Development Programme revealed that nearly half of the world’s population say that men make better political leaders while more than 40 percent believe men make better business executives than women. To address gender bias, a wife and husband started a business in the mining sector.

Civil service reform: Public Service Amendment Act will reduce discretion of politicians to recruit staff, interfere in operational matters.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 04 (IPS) - The UN’s high-level appointments have mostly been on the basis of “equitable geographical rotation”—with Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean taking turns.But a proposal for future appointments and for candidates for elective office-– based on gender rotation—is gaining ground against a world body which is mostly male-oriented even at its highest echelons, with nine all-male Secretaries-General (UNSG) and onl...

The UN’s high-level appointments have mostly been on the basis of “equitable geographical rotation”—with Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean taking

Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.