The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended 14 organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and deferred action on the status of 34 others.
Given setbacks in Somalia due to political crises in 2014, it was critical to accelerate the federalism process in 2015 to maintain progress in stability, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative told the Security Council this morning.
Fuelled by the voices, concerns and demands of young people, the Youth Forum wrapped up its two-day meeting today, hearing from more than 50 speakers who delved into critical issues such as gender equality and African development, as well as global and regional efforts to include and involve history’s largest youth population in building a sustainable future.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, observed on 6 February:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife, Madame Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, late on Thursday evening, 29 January, to attend the twenty-fourth Summit of the African Union.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Liu Jieyi (China):
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Davos, Switzerland, shortly after noon on Thursday, 22 January, to attend the World Economic Forum.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights urged all sides to halt the escalation in the fighting in eastern Ukraine. He said that bus stops, marketplaces, schools, hospitals and residential areas have become battlegrounds in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which is in clear breach of international humanitarian law
Recommitment to the United Nations’ central role in international cooperation to maintain peace, along with work on a range of global situations now of concern, would be the focus of China’s February presidency of the Security Council, the country’s Permanent Representative said this afternoon.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
