On 20 October 1943, 17 member nations established the United Nations War Crimes Commission to investigate and record the evidence of war crimes committed during the Second World War. For more than 70 years, access to those records has been restricted. They are now open to the public, following the release in July 2014 of a full copy of the archive to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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 Gary Quinlan (Australia):
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gary Quinlan (Australia):
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
In Geneva, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stressed the impact of the Ebola crisis on essential health services in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In the past three months, UNICEF has shipped almost 3,000 metric tonnes of life-saving supplies, including protective equipment and essential medicine.
At its 50th meeting, on 19 September 2014, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the examination of the fifth report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (S/2014/453), to address the following message through a public statement issued by the Chair of the Working Group:
On 7 November 2014, the Security Council’s 2140 Sanctions Committee designated three individuals as subject to the assets freeze and travel ban measures outlined, respectively, in paragraphs 11 and 15 of Security Council resolution 2140 (2014), adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Ninth Meeting of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Centre for Counter-Terrorism, in New York, 7 November:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Beijing Forum 2014, held from 7 to 9 November:
