Calls for action to preserve indigenous languages took centre stage today as the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues entered the penultimate day of its fifteenth session, also taking up such critical issues as health, education, human rights, economic and social development, environment and culture.
STOCKHOLM, 19 May — Full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development would constitute a critical piece of Palestine’s envisaged transition to a peaceful, independent and sustainable State, speakers participating in the opening session of the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People in Stockholm, Sweden, said today.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, welcomed the decision by Pfizer to prevent the use of its drugs for executions. He said it is heartening to see companies helping to further the trend towards ending use of the death penalty, and urged States not to seek the drugs from questionable sources.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the “Women Deliver Conference 2016”, in Copenhagen today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Dag Hammarskjöld medal ceremony, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal ceremony, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Robert Piper, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, to the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, in Stockholm 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, as prepared for delivery, at the Korea Society, in New York today:
After 15 years, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues had matured into a unique platform for the exchange of knowledge, but must now find ways to ensure the implementation of its recommendations or risk losing its hard-won credibility, speakers said today while suggesting changes to consider in developing future work programmes.
