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General Assembly Adopts Resolutions Concerning Staff Mobility Framework, Capital Master Plan, Acting on Recommendations of Fifth Committee

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General Assembly Adopts Resolutions Concerning Staff Mobility Framework, Capital Master Plan, Acting on Recommendations of Fifth Committee

The General Assembly adopted several draft resolutions recommended by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today, including one relating to a career development and mobility framework for United Nations staff — a key initiative of the Secretary-General.

Secretary-General, Special Envoy on Education Team up with Celebrities in Campaign to Get 57 Million Children into School

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Secretary-General, Special Envoy on Education Team up with Celebrities in Campaign to Get 57 Million Children into School

A high-powered group of world leaders, campaigners and celebrities will today join forces to get 57 million “lost” children into school today as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon co-launches a new global campaign in Washington, D.C., with Gordon Brown, his Special Envoy for Global Education.

Special Envoy Warns of 'Lost Generation' without Greater Investment in Youth, as Population Commission Continues

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Special Envoy Warns of 'Lost Generation' without Greater Investment in Youth, as Population Commission Continues

For young people to reach their potential as “agents of progress”, it was crucial to involve them in the planning, development and monitoring of programmes that affected their lives, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Youth told the Commission on Population and Development today, drawing particular attention to the situation of adolescent girls.

Secretary-General, Commemorating Rwanda Victims, Urges Collective Resolve in Consigning Genocide to History

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Secretary-General, Commemorating Rwanda Victims, Urges Collective Resolve in Consigning Genocide to History

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) commemoration in memory of the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, as delivered by Bongani Majola, ICTR Registrar, in Arusha today:
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