Press Release

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Mark Lyall Grant (United Kingdom):

On the 101st anniversary of International Women’s Day, 8 March, the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, is hosting a reception at 6 p.m. in the North-East Gallery of the Visitors Lobby to mark the opening of a unique quilt exhibition titled “Women are the Fabric”.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, at “Equality Means Business: Gender Equality for Sustainable Business”, in New York today, 6 March:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a concert hosted by Japan to mark the one-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, in New York, 5 March:

On 5 March 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entry specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1989 (2011) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Security Council’s open debate on Somalia, in New York on 5 March:

In observance of International Women’s Day on 8 March, The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme is partnering with the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation Institute to hold a round-table discussion in Los Angeles titled “Strength Through Adversity: Women and Mass Violence”.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s oral report to the General Assembly on the implementation of resolution 66/253, in New York on 2 March: