The Secretary-General marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, urging everyone to help end the global disgrace of violence against women and girls, which affects one in three women worldwide and is present in every society globally.

United Nations Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon travelled to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, 19 November, to chair the twice-yearly meetings of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), which brings together the heads of the entire United Nations system to discuss issues of mutual concern.

Following are UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s video message to the seventh session of the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues, “Preventing and addressing violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minorities”, in Geneva today:

By the terms of one of six draft resolutions that the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) approved this afternoon, the General Assembly would express serious concern at the lack of progress in the Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations and would reiterate the call for the necessary flexibility and political will needed to break the current impasse in the negotiations.

In the four months since the adoption of resolution 2165 (2014), the United Nations had sent humanitarian aid to nearly all hard-to-reach locations in Syria’s four governorates, primarily through cross-border deliveries, but “considerable” challenges remained in accessing the most besieged areas, the Security Council heard today.

Following are UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the opening of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) photo exhibition, in New York today:

On 20 November 2014, the entry specified below was deleted from the Sanctions List of the and from the Consolidated United Nations Security Council Sanctions List.

Offering a range of solutions for moving the Middle East peace process forward, while regretting the steps backward due to escalation of violence in recent months, the General Assembly adopted six draft resolutions today by recorded vote on the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East overall.

As the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved 18 draft resolutions, with 14 without a vote, delegations voiced concerns regarding four texts including one on the report of the Human Rights Council, debating whether that body had been politicized, thus undermining its legitimacy and credibility.