Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s message for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, observed on 25 March:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s message for World Down Syndrome Day, observed on 21 March:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Meteorological Day, observed on 23 March:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Nowruz, observed on 21 March:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Informal Conference on Disarmament, held in Geneva today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Happiness Day, observed on 20 March:
After 15 years of international efforts, the Democratic Republic of the Congo had emerged from civil war into a unified country, with a clear, shared and celebrated identity, and free of much of the terror of armed groups, the United Nations most senior official in that country told the Security Council today in a message laced with caution that the overall security situation was not still stable, let alone irreversible.
The Da’esh group may have committed all three of the most serious international crimes — war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, according to a report issued today by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The Security Council today expressed deep concern at recent incidents across the Blue Line and in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) area of operations, underlining that such events could lead to a new conflict that “none of the parties — or the region — can afford” and urging all parties to abide “scrupulously” by their obligation to respect the Force’s safety.
Like the Millennium Development Goals, progress on gender mainstreaming remained uneven across a landscape of United Nations functional commissions and work remained to be done to galvanize meaningful change in the post-2015 era, the Commission on the Status of Women heard today during interactive discussions on the penultimate day of its two-week annual session.
