new study seeks to show changing face of migration in southern africa

 

Biographical Note

Secretary-General appoints aracelly santana of ecuador as deputy special

representative, deputy head of United Nations Mission in Nepal

 

Secretary-General appoints catherine pollard of guyana as Assistant

Secretary-General for human resources management

 

WITH 20 RATIFICATIONS, LANDMARK DISABILITY TREATY SET TO ENTER INTO FORCE ON 3 MAY

Ecuador today became the twentieth country to ratify the landmark Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which is now set to enter into force on 3 May.  The Convention needed 20 ratifications to take effect.

Secretary-General, in message for world health day, stresses need to place

 

protection of most vulnerable at heart of global climate change agenda

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Health Day, observed on 7 April:

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

91^st Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES OPENING OF CROSSING IN CYPRIOT CAPITAL

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Background Release

LEARN FROM PROBLEMS OF CORRUPTION, COORDINATION, PARTNERSHIP IN AFGHANISTAN,

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION SUMMIT

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Conference on Afghanistan in Bucharest, today, 3 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CONVENTION ON RIGHTS

 

OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND ITS OPTIONAL PROTOCOL

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: