Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the high-level meeting on moving away from the death penalty: “The Voices of Victims’ Families”, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Core Group event, titled “Leaving No One Behind: Equality & Inclusion in the Post-2015 Development Agenda”, in New York today:
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 UN Free & Equal Lunch, in San Francisco today:
The Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities closed its eighth session today, adopting three decisions that laid out the terms for its ninth session, and exploring ways to overcome pervasive discrimination in the provision of everything from health care and education to employment and disaster relief.
Around the world, more than 1 billion people with disabilities were desperately poor, dying of hunger and preventable disease, which made it essential for their explicit rights and needs to be mainstreamed in the new global development framework currently being negotiated, delegates stressed today as the Conference of States Parties to the Disabilities Convention opened its eighth session.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the eighth Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in New York today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues concluded its fourteenth session today, sending nine draft reports to the Economic and Social Council containing proposals, recommendations and three draft decisions, including a call for the General Assembly to consider establishing a procedure to guarantee indigenous peoples’ participation in its seventieth session.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
