Following is UN Secretary-General’s message for the International Day of Families, 15 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, 17 May:

Following is a joint message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Director-General Irina Bokova on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, under the theme “Media Freedom for a Better Future: Shaping the Post-2015 Development Agenda”, to be observed on 3 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the World Press Freedom Day (3 May) observance held in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Mother Earth Day, to be observed on 22 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Malaria Day, to be observed on 25 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, observed today:

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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the event marking the first anniversary of the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the twentieth commemoration of the Rwanda genocide, to be observed on 7 April: