Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Left Unchecked, Violence against Girls Will Morally Doom Efforts to Reach Millennium Development Goals, Commission on Status of Women Told

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Left Unchecked, Violence against Girls Will Morally Doom Efforts to Reach Millennium Development Goals, Commission on Status of Women Told

While more Governments were adopting laws and policies to address the multiple forms of violence against girls, those youths still bore the heaviest burden of the failure to secure equitable development for all — as victims of female genital mutilation, rape and both commercial and sexual exploitation — a scenario which, if left unchecked, would morally doom efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals, the Commission on the Status of Women heard today.

Fundamental Issues of Peace, Security at Stake, Secretary-General Warns as He Briefs Security Council on Situation in Libya

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Fundamental Issues of Peace, Security at Stake, Secretary-General Warns as He Briefs Security Council on Situation in Libya

Warning that “fundamental peace and security issues are at stake in Libya”, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today briefed the Security Council on the situation in that country — where more than 1,000 people have been killed as security forces and militiamen loyal to leader Muammar Al-Qadhafi continued their deadly assault on civilian protesters — and urged members to consider concrete action to stop the violence and end the loss of life.

‘Kuwait and Iraq Stand at Dawn of New Era of Peaceful Coexistence,’ Secretary-General Says in Commemoration of Kuwait’s Independence

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‘Kuwait and Iraq Stand at Dawn of New Era of Peaceful Coexistence,’ Secretary-General Says in Commemoration of Kuwait’s Independence

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the twentieth anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait and fiftieth anniversary of its independence, today, 26 February, in New York:

Security Council Welcomes First Report of Ombudsperson Tasked with Considering Requests for ‘De-listing’ from Sanctions Targeting Al-Qaida, Taliban

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Security Council Welcomes First Report of Ombudsperson Tasked with Considering Requests for ‘De-listing’ from Sanctions Targeting Al-Qaida, Taliban

The Security Council today welcomed the first report of the Ombudsperson charged with aiding in the consideration of requests by individuals and organizations seeking removal from the list created by the Council’s Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee.

Secretary-General, Presidents of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon Issue Joint Communiqué Following Trilateral High-level Meeting at Headquarters

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Secretary-General, Presidents of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon Issue Joint Communiqué Following Trilateral High-level Meeting at Headquarters

Following is the joint communiqué issued at the end of the trilateral High-Level Meeting of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of Equatorial Guinea and the President of Gabon at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 25 February:
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