EFFORTS TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS, DEVELOPMENT, GENDER EQUALITY WILL HAVE ‘GAPING VOID’

IF THREAT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN NOT ENDED, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL CLOSES INTER-AGENCY MEETING BY STRESSING NEED

TO ADDRESS DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGES FACING MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES

REGIONAL APPROACHES STRENGTHEN CAPACITY TO ADDRESS GLOBAL CHALLENGES, SAYS

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS TO INTER-AGENCY COORDINATION MEETING

INHUMANE IMPACT OF CLUSTER MUNITIONS REQUIRES ‘URGENT ACTION’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON EVE OF VIENNA MEETING

 

Following is the statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the occasion of the Vienna Conference on Cluster Munitions, 5-7 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES BUSINESS LEADERS TO BRING ENTREPRENEURSHIP, NEW TECHNOLOGIES

TO BEAR ON CLIMATE CHANGE, IN MESSAGE TO NEW YORK AWARD DINNER

 

‘THE ROAD TO A MINE-FREE WORLD IS LONG, BUT AN END IS IN SIGHT,’

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON 10^th ANNIVERSARY OF MINE-BAN CONVENTION

universal declaration should be integral part of everyone’s life,

 

Secretary-General says in message to mark human rights day

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on Human Rights Day, to be observed on 10 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS ROBERT H. SERRY OF NETHERLANDS UNITED NATIONS

SPECIAL COORDINATOR FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS

 

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

 

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN december

 

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and the Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for December:

Ad Hoc Committee for Voluntary

Contributions to UNRWA

1^st Meeting (AM)

BUDGET FOR UNITED NATIONS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES PROMISED CONTRIBUTIONS