Secretary-General

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Jane Holl Lute of the United States as Special Coordinator on improving the United Nations response to sexual exploitation and abuse.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message released today for the Chinese Lunar New Year:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Park East Synagogue commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, in New York today:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address at event co-organized by the United Nations Association of the United Kingdom and Chatham House, in London today:

On Sunday evening, 31 January 2016, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived from Addis Ababa in Muscat, where he would deliver a lecture at the National Defense College.

On Thursday evening, 28 January, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew from New York to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to attend the twenty-sixth Africa Union Summit, whose theme was “2016: African Year of Human Rights with Particular Focus on the Rights of Women”.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, observed on 6 February:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks to the Supporting Syria and the Region conference, in London today: