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Ambassador Eugène-Richard Gasana of Rwanda, President of the Security Council for July, briefs the reporters.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Ban, Security Council condemn recent DPR Korea missile launches

17 July 2014
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the members of the Security Council have deplored the continued missile launches conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Women sit together outside a dormitory at the Heal Africa Transit Center for victims of sexual violence.
Aubrey Graham/IRIN

DR Congo: UN hails appointment of senior adviser on sexual violence, child recruitment

14 July 2014
The appointment of a presidential adviser on conflict-related sexual violence and child recruitment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) marks “a new dawn” in tackling these scourges, senior United Nations officials said today.