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The United Nations mission in Afghanistan today stressed the need for the rights of victims of the country’s past 25 years of conflict to be at the heart of national reconciliation and any efforts to grant impunity.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for more than mere words from tomorrow’s high-level diplomatic meeting in Washington of key partners seeking a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a two-state solution.

Former Tanzanian Foreign Minister Asha-Rose Migiro reported for duty at United Nations Headquarters in New York today as Deputy Secretary-General, making her the highest ranking woman at the world body and the second highest among all officials.

An independent United Nations human rights expert has called on Algeria to take concrete measures against the gender inequality underlying violence against women, which she called a largely hidden problem because of the North African country’s social taboos around violence.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed an experienced United Nations official and former British diplomat as his new envoy to spearhead efforts to re-start the long-stalled peace process in Western Sahara.

The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today announced the start of a pilot scheme called “One UN” that seeks to better coordinate development activities at the country level and avoid duplication.

Continuing efforts to improve security in Timor-Leste, more than 100 United Nations Police officers, backed by troops from the International Security Forces (ISF), have arrested around 50 gang members from two neighbourhoods in the capital Dili, and confiscated homemade firearms, machetes, Molotov cocktails and other weapons, the top UN police official in the country said today.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned the weekend kidnapping of a driver of a WFP-contracted convoy in eastern Chad, the third such armed attack on an aid convoy in the area in the past two months.

The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Kosovo’s future status process Martti Ahtisaari will officially present his proposal on the Serbian province’s final status to the Serbian Government and Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian-led provisional authorities tomorrow.