United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will launch a Call to Action on World Autism Awareness Day, 2 April, inviting businesses to make concrete commitments to employ persons with autism.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Eighteenth Winter Deaflympics taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk and Magnitogorsk, Russian Federation, from 28 March to 5 April:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Autism Awareness Day, observed on 2 April:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for Earth Hour 2015, observed on 28 March:
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 to the twenty-sixth Ordinary Session of the Council of the League of Arab States, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, today:
Unless well-targeted humanitarian assistance reached those fleeing Boko Haram’s increasingly brutal attacks, more than 3 million people in northern Nigeria would be unable to meet basic food needs in the coming months and millions more would be affected, top United Nations officials said, briefing the Security Council on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s closing remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Chiefs of Defence Conference in New York today:
With almost 200 million people in the 15 to 24 age group — a figure likely to double in the next three decades — Africa represented an opportunity as well as challenge, the President of Tanzania told the Economic and Social Council today as that body began its 2015 integration session on the theme “Achieving sustainable development through employment creation and decent work for all”.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President François Delattre (France):
