Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff, observed on 25 March:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims, observed today:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins (Angola):
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to Sufi Night of Peace Concert, in New York today:
Civil society groups today urged Governments to redouble their efforts towards gender equality and women’s empowerment in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, as the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women completed its general discussion.
Thirteen trucks of badly needed emergency relief items from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reached south-western Yemen, marking the first time a UNHCR convoy made it all the way from Aden to Tiazz governorate. Distribution is starting this week for 500 displaced people, returnees and local families.
Amid rising political tensions associated with the electoral process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the increasing number of security incidents and human rights violations, it was crucial to send a strong message about the need for political consensus on a sustainable way forward, the Security Council heard today during its periodic briefing on the situation in that country.
The membership of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum has been renewed.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the World Water Day event “Better Water, Better Jobs”, in New York today:
On 14 March 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan and the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict held joint informal consultations featuring a briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, concerning the impact of the armed conflict on children in South Sudan.
