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UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia handing over security responsibility to national forces

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UN peacekeepers in Liberia.

Quartet report cites violence, settlements and Gaza as barriers to Middle East peace – UN envoy

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Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the...

Iraq Crisis: 3.6 million children now at risk from increasing violence

3.6 million children in Iraq – one in five in the country - are at serious risk of death, injury, sexual violence, abduction and recruitment into armed groups, according to a new UNICEF report.

Security Council extends mandates of UN peacekeeping operations in Darfur, Golan and Mali

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Wide view of the Security Council on 29 June 2016 where members took action on mandates of peacekeeping...