Implementation of the 2030 Agenda, Addis Ababa Action Plan and the Paris Agreement were the “moral imperatives of our time”, said General Assembly President Peter Thomson (Fiji) as the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) took up the topic of sustainable development.
Concluding its consideration of decolonization questions today, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) approved 20 draft resolutions for adoption by the General Assembly, four of them by recorded vote.
Femicide — the killing of women because of their gender — and other human rights violations targeting them were hotly debated today as the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) began its consideration of the advancement of women.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the event on financial solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of the Girl Child, observed on 11 October:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Africa Week high-level inaugural event on strengthening partnerships for inclusive sustainable development, good governance, peace and stability in Africa, in New York today:
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is extremely concerned by reports of horrific violence against civilians in Yei, Central Equatoria. The Mission calls on the authorities to grant it and humanitarian partners immediate, unfettered access to the area and on all parties to cease hostilities.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the World Energy Congress, in Istanbul, Turkey, today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Second Summit of the Asian Cooperation Dialogue, in Bangkok today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
