A team of 29 Cambodian deminers deployed by the United Nations has completed a six-month assignment in Cyprus, having cleared areas of the buffer zone around Mammari and Lefka-Aplici. The team was despatched from Lebanon…
New York, 28 October 2015 – On 31 October 2000, the United Nations Security Council adopted the historic resolution 1325, drawing attention to the differential impact of armed conflict on women, their exclusion from conflict…
NICOSIA, 11 December 2015 - The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) wishes to express its sincere thanks to the Swiss Confederation for its donation of EUR 38,000 made today. This second allocation brings the Swiss financial…
NEW YORK, 14 May 2014 – This August, Major General Kristin Lund will become the first female commander of a United Nations peacekeeping force, taking the military helm in Cyprus where the top UN official, Lisa Buttenheim, is…