Press Releases

KABUL - On World Press Freedom Day, the United Nations in Afghanistan expresses its solidarity with the country’s media sector, where challenges including de facto authority restrictions and economic constraints are…

TRIPOLI - The Advisory Committee, established by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), completed its deliberations yesterday and finalized a set of options to address contentious issues in Libya’s current…

Port-au-Prince, 30 April 2025: During the first quarter of 2025, the human rights situation in Haiti remained extremely worrying, marked by mass crimes, kidnappings and sexual violence. Between 1 January and 31 March 2025, at…

TRIPOLI - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is concerned about recent political and security developments and warns against the risk of escalatory unilateral actions by political and security actors. UNSMIL…

Dakar, April 20, 2025 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, Leonardo Santos Simão, concluded yesterday a two-day working visit to Abidjan…

The Secretary-General is gravely concerned about the airstrikes conducted by the United States over the course of 17 and 18 April in and around Yemen’s port of Ra’s Isa, which reportedly resulted in scores of civilian…

The Secretary-General is gravely concerned about the airstrikes conducted by the United States over the course of 17 and 18 April in and around Yemen’s port of Ra’s Isa, which reportedly resulted in scores of civilian…

Dakar, 17 April 2025 - As part of his continued engagement, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel(UNOWAS), Leonardo Santos Simão, yesterday…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday released a report on the impact, implementation and enforcement of the “law on the pr opagatio n of virtue and prevention of vice”, or “PVPV law…

UNSMIL is concerned about Libya’s worsening economic situation and the exchange of divisive, politically based accusations about responsibility for it, following the Central Bank of Libya’s devaluation of the Libyan dinar and…