This year, the International Day of Peace calls for recovering better for an equitable and sustainable world. In the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are invited to reflect on how we can best help transform our world into a more equal, just, fair, inclusive, sustainable and healthy one. From the Sahel region, we share the impact of a partnership between the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UN Volunteers (UNV) programme.
A new project in Burkina Faso offers hope in prison in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
In Burkina Faso, UNODC, UNV and IOM launched a project supporting the prevention of risks of deterioration of social cohesion and peace in the context of the response to COVID-19 at points of entry and in places of detention, with funding from the UN Peacekeeping Fund.