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The Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Mbaye Babacar Cissé, on 12 December 2014, appealed to actors in the Bas-Sassandra region to think about the ways and means in which…

18 December 2014 On International Migrants Day, we call for the fulfilment and protection of the human rights of the world's 232 million migrants. Far too many migrants live and work in precarious and unjust conditions. Many…

10 december 2014 On Human Rights Day we speak out. We denounce authorities who deny the rights of any person or group. We declare that human rights are for all of us, all the time: whoever we are and wherever we are from; no…

The grassroots sensitization campaign of the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) was held in the village of Tahiraguhe (a dozen km from Daloa) on 9 December 2014 to promote peace and national reconciliation. Members of the…

9 December 2014 Corruption is a global phenomenon that strikes hardest at the poor, hinders inclusive economic growth and robs essential services of badly needed funds. From cradle to grave, millions are touched by corruption…

Some 20 members of NGOs, the Legal Clinic and government agencies in the Tonkpi region on 7 December 2014 ended a 3-day training course on legal proceedings against perpetrators of sexual violence organized by the UN…

Women traders of Carrefour quarters in Lakota, 244 km north-west of Abidjan, have been bearing a grudge against one another which aggravated during the 2010 post electoral crisis and led to the death of two people. In a bid…

ONUCI Tour, the mobile sensitization team of the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI), made a stopover in Katiola (400 km north of Abidjan) on 3 December 2014 and called on community leaders to encourage citizens in illegal…

Maintaining social cohesion and peaceful presidential elections in 2015 : these were the two issues among others that were discussed during a sensitisation session organised by the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire…

Some 150 people on 3 December 2014 participated in an information and sensitisation session known as ONUCI Tour organised in Sakassou, situated 42 km from Bouaké, by the different sections of the United Nations Operation in…

The Principal Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Simon Munzu, on Thursday, 4 December 2014, in Camp Gallieni in Abidjan, took part in the launch of Open Days on Human…

New York, 5 December 2014 Today marks the first observance of World Soil Day and the launch of the International Year of Soils (2015). Without healthy soils, life on earth would be unsustainable. Soils are the foundation of…