Global action to improve the health of women and children would be enhanced through a new programme to share ideas and successes among developing countries, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced yesterday.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of Kwibuka20 in New York today:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Raimonda Murmokaitė ( Lithuania):

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s keynote address, as prepared for delivery, at a panel discussion on “The rule of law, peace and security, human rights and development”, held at Headquarters today as a follow-up to the Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Women’s Day, 8 March:

The new Permanent Representative of Cambodia to the United Nations, Ry Tuy, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Cabo Verde to the United Nations, Fernando Jorge Wahnon Ferreira, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The new Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations, Ja Song Nam, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

NEW YORK, 28 February (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — A six-day initiative will be held from 3 March with a view to bolstering security and peacebuilding in Côte d’Ivoire and improving the management of stockpiles of small arms and light weapons as well as ammunition, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) announced today.

At its forty-third meeting, on 15 February 2014, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the examination of the third report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Philippines (document S/2013/419), to address the following message to all parties to the armed conflict in the Philippines mentioned in the report of the Secretary-General through a public statement by its Chair: