The Security Council today extended until 31 March 2016 the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), including its intervention brigade.
The Security Council today authorized an increase of 750 military personnel, 280 police personnel and 20 corrections officers for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), over the levels authorized by resolution 2149 (2014).
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the fortieth anniversary of the entry into force of the Biological Weapons Convention, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a meeting of the General Assembly on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the unveiling of the permanent memorial to the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, in New York today:
The Secretary-General spoke at the open debate in the Security Council this morning on children and armed conflict and said that the world’s children are increasingly under threat in theatres of war. He emphasized that the children of the world should be students, not soldiers.
The rich contributions of women enslaved during the era of the transatlantic slave trade — who suffered dual forms of oppression due to their race and gender — were too often forgotten, said high-level speakers as they addressed the General Assembly’s annual event commemorating the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Being a child soldier was like being ripped from childhood and thrown into an adult world, the Security Council heard today from Junior Nzita Nsuami, who described his forcible recruitment at age 12 into a decade of war and violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the 15-member body held an open debate on children and armed conflict.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council at the open debate on children and armed conflict, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Georg Kell, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, for the Sedex [Supplier Ethical Data Exchange] Global Responsible Sourcing Conference, in London today:
