Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson's remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Barbershop Conference on Changing the Discourse among Men on Gender Equality, in New York, today:
The United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, called for the world to unite and condemn Boko Haram’s ‘new barbaric low’ of using young girls as suicide bombers, noting that over the past week there had been three attacks by girls who blew themselves up in crowded areas.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the National Congress of Honduras, in Tegucigalpa today:
Seized with a succession of new crises in Europe, the Middle East and across Africa, the Security Council in 2014 tackled an expanding workload in a record number of meetings while seeking to defeat terrorism, prevent conflicts, protect civilians, and improve the effectiveness of sanctions and other tools to quell tensions and neutralize threats.
The Secretary-General condemns the shelling yesterday of a bus in Ukraine, reportedly resulting in the death of at least 11 civilians. He exhorts all sides to respect the ceasefire and return to the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
Recognizing peacebuilding as an important element of United Nations efforts in countries emerging from conflict, the Security Council today both underlined the primary responsibility of national Governments and other stakeholders towards such successful peacebuilding, and emphasized the importance of inclusivity in advancing relevant processes to ensure that the needs of all segments of society were being taken into account.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General’s Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the Security Council on post-conflict peacebuilding, in New York today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Cristián Barros Melet (Chile):
The United Nations Children’s Fund has delivered warm clothing, blankets, heating supplies, cash and vouchers to more than 900,000 children in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey as the harsh winter season continues, including 350,000 children in Syria, and more than 200,000 children in over 100 hard-to-reach and high altitude areas in Iraq.
