The Secretary-General returned to New York from Qatar, where, in his address to the UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, he said that the roots of crime are everywhere threatening to choke the weak and vulnerable.
The United Nations is calling for nominations for the 2015 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize. The Prize, newly established by the General Assembly through its resolution 68/275 of June 2014, will be presented once every five years as a tribute to the outstanding achievements and contributions of two individuals, one female and one male.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Commission on Population and Development, delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Universal Postal Union Strategy Conference, taking place from 13 to 14 April 2015 in Geneva:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, to the fifty-fourth annual session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO), taking place in Beijing from 13-17 April 2015:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the thirteenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, in Doha, Qatar, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Seventh Summit of the Americas, in Panama City today:
On 10 April 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entries specified to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2161 (2014) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
DOHA, 13 April — As criminals became ever more sophisticated and brutal, swift and collective action was needed to stamp out new and emerging threats, delegates heard today as the thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice continued its high-level segment.
DOHA, 12 April — The success of the United Nations work in the post-2015 era depended upon the central and cross-cutting elements of crime prevention, criminal justice and the rule of law, stressed high-level speakers as they opened the Thirteenth Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Doha today.
