Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, to be observed on 27 January:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, to be observed on 19 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the launch of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, to be delivered by Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, in Kanazawa, Japan, on 17 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Migrants Day, to be observed on 18 December:

Following is Secretary-General Ban Ki–moon’s message on International Human Solidarity Day, observed 20 December:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the closure of the International Year for People of African Descent in New York on 6 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Human Rights Day, observed on 10 December:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the commemoration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, in New York on 2 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, observed on 3 December: