Darfur / UNAMID Daily Media Brief
EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, December 15, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — UNAMID Daily Media Brief / 2009-12-15
Security situation in Darfur
The security situation in Darfur remains relatively calm but unpredictable.
UNAMID military forces conducted 67 patrols including routine, short range, long range, night, and Humanitarian escort patrols, covering 62 villages and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps during the reporting period.
UNAMID police advisors also conducted 124 patrols in villages and IDP camps.
UNAMID concludes GBV workshop for sub-committee members
UNAMID Head of Office for North Darfur, Hassan Gibril, urged the participants of a GBV workshop to use the knowledge they gained to help survivors on the ground and also to assist the State Committee in addressing GBV issues at a community level.
UNAMID has today concluded a two-day workshop on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in El Fasher, North Darfur, organised by the Gender Advisory Unit in collaboration with the North Darfur State Committee on GBV. The workshop aimed at building and strengthening the capacity of members of the State Committee to effectively administer GBV programmes at community level.
Thirty members of regional sub-committees from Kabkabiya, Mellit and Kutum localities participated in the workshop. The attendees are from various youth, media, health, community policing and women’s organizations within their respective communities, 16 of them female.
Gibril stated that UNAMID’S support for this programme stemmed from its obligations under the Mission’s mandate to protect vulnerable groups from human rights abuses.
SOURCE
United Nations – African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)
