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On 8 March 2016, the Russian flag was raised at UNFICYP HQ as the first ever Russian deployment commenced their duties with the Mission. The deployment includes three female police officers who will join UNFICYP's police component.
As a boy growing up in post-war Korea, I remember asking about a tradition I observed: women going into labour would leave their shoes at the threshold and then look back in fear. “They are wondering if they will ever step into those shoes again,” my mother explained.
The Gender Equality Technical Committee (GETC) on the occasion of the International Women’s Day joins in celebration with millions of women around the globe who have been struggling across time and space against all forms of discrimination, exclusion, marginalization, violence and for equal right
Margot Wallström, Minister for Foreign Affairs, welcomed the United Nations efforts to reach an agreement on the Cyprus issue and acknowledged the role of religious leaders of Cyprus in the reconciliation process at the Parliamentary debate on Foreign Affairs 2016 in the Swedish Parliament this m
With warm weather this week promising the start of a lovely spring in Cyprus, UNFICYP Sector 4 brought together some of the Mission’s best sportsmen and sportswomen to compete in a series of disciplines on 23 February.
The CMP Members visited Brussels from 16 to 18 February to meet with interlocutors at the European Parliament and the European Commission.
In the context of the mandate given to the Technical Committees and in the absence of local experience about federal policing, the Technical Committee on Crime and Criminal Matters organized on the 17th of February at its Joint Contact Room in the buffer zone for its members a seminar on “Policin
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, Ms. Lisa Buttenheim, on 16 February awarded troops from UNFICYP’s Sector 4 on 16 February with UN medals for their work in Cyprus.
Magda Zenon, who presents a weekly programme on the station called KaleidHerscope on MyCy Radio. UNFICYP/Juraj Hladky
The advent of the digital age has revolutionized how we communicate with each other, and how information is shared generally, creating opportunities that seemed unimaginable just a few years ago.
UNHCR aids refugees on the Greek Islands (file photo)
The first group of asylum-seekers relocated from Greece arrived in Cyprus yesterday afternoon.