Humanitarian issues

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the 2011 Humanitarian of the Year Gala Dinner, delivered by Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in New York on 13 October:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks for World Humanitarian Day, in New York today, 19 August:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Emergency Ministerial Meeting on the Horn of Africa, as delivered by Gwi-Yeop Son, Director of Corporate Programmes Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, in Rome, 18 August:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Humanitarian Day, to be observed 19 August:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Humanitarian Funding Conference in Geneva today, 25 January:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the replenishment conference for the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), in New York, 14 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly informal meeting on Haiti, in New York today, 3 December:

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Rauf Engin Soysal of Turkey as Special Envoy for Assistance to Pakistan.

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