Africa’s call for reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has grown into a compelling argument for decolonising the composition of the Council by adding one or more African permanent members
It is time now – more than ever – for the UN Security Council to endorse one of the funding models outlined by Secretary-General Guterres for the predictable, sustainable, and flexible financing of AU-led operations and modalities for AU missions to access UN accessed contributions.
UN peacekeeping is now under new pressure because of a significant loss of trust between its three large stabilisation operations and their host countries
Ongoing peace processes attest to a new dynamic; they signal a quest for finding regional solutions to peace and security challenges in the Great Lakes region
Joint Communique: Fourteenth (14th) Annual Joint Consultative Meeting between Members of The United Nations Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council, 30 September 2020 Source: African Union
Redouble efforts against ‘global scourge’ of gender-based violence, intensified by pandemic: Guterres Source: UN News From domestic violence to sexual abuse, online harassment and increased child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV)
UN agencies, together with the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, call for reform of nationality laws that discriminate on the basis of gender Source: UN Women At a high
Africa: South African President Warns Pandemic Has Set Back African Development Source: allAfrica Despite the continent-wide approach taken by African countries to combat COVID-19, the pandemic has set back their
UN peacekeeping chief outlines reforms needed to keep operations fit-for-purpose Source: UN News Over the next 10 years, the world could well be transformed by potentially lethal new technologies, climate
Monthly Action Points (MAP) for the Security Council: September 2020 Source: NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security released its