Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message for the International Day of Youth, observed on 12 August:
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:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the meeting with Argentinian youth and civil society leaders hosted by Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, Mayor of Buenos Aires, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Gyan Chandra Acharya, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, to the high-level symposium on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 and target ensuring that no one is left behind in access to water and sanitation, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, today:
The Secretary-General welcomes the 8 August signing of the Roadmap Agreement for Ending the Conflicts in Sudan by the Sudanese opposition groups. He is encouraged by this valuable step towards ending the war and resolving the crises in the country.
Today is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. On this occasion, the Secretary-General said that indigenous peoples face a wide range of challenges including systematic discrimination, denial of their land and territorial rights and inadequate access to essential services.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kim Won-soo, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the UN-Women office in Buenos Aires today:
This year, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (9 August) is devoted to indigenous peoples' right to education, given the persistent gaps between indigenous and non-indigenous students in terms of access to education, school retention and graduation rates in all regions of the world.
