The Secretary-General launched his report One Humanity: Shared Responsibility this morning, ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, in May. It urges leaders to assume their responsibility to prevent and end conflicts, and States to uphold the norms that safeguard humanity.
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 opening remarks at the launch of the report for the World Humanitarian Summit, “One Humanity: Shared Responsibility”, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the high-level event “In Stronger Partnership and Coordination to Stop Human Trafficking: Eradicating Modern-Day Slavery through Sustainable Development”, in New York today:
Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the 2016 World Government Summit, in Dubai today:
Despite recent territorial losses inflicted upon Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the international community urgently needed “unity and action” to combat the continuing threat posed by the terrorist group, the ranking United Nations political official stressed today as he briefed the Security Council.
The Security Council decided today to maintain the current personnel ceiling of more than 12,800 in the military and police components of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic and to increase the number of corrections officers, determining that the situation in the strife-torn nation remained a threat to international peace and security.
Economies must be put at the service of people, through effective integrated social policies, the United Nations Secretary-General told the Commission for Social Development today, stressing that, in a world where inequality was still too high and too few economies had attained sustainable growth, the body’s policy guidance would be critical to global efforts to end poverty by 2030.
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 at the Special Event on Mobilizing to Achieve the Global Goals through the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) by 2030, in New York today:
