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

The United Nations refugee agency reports that military advances by Nigerian Government forces and the Multi-National Joint Task Force against Boko Haram have exposed a shocking level of suffering in the northeast region, identifying some 800,000 internally displaced persons in need of help.

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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the annual memorial service in honour of fallen staff on the anniversary of the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) on the occasion of its seventieth anniversary, in New York today:

Welcoming the continued political and security progress in Somalia, the Security Council today underscored the need to maintain the momentum towards democratic governance with an inclusive, transparent and credible national electoral process this year as a stepping stone to universal suffrage elections in 2020.

On 18 August 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya updated its Implementation Assistance Notice no. 3.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees today reports some success in the first two years of a five-year programme aimed at ending the detention of children who are asylum seekers.  Twelve countries had made important progress that had contributed to an overall decrease of 14 per cent of children who are detained.

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

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