WORLD HAS WITNESSED DISTURBING RISE IN HATRED, BIGOTRY, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

URGING ON DAY TO ELIMINATE RACISM FOR ALL STATES TO WORK TOGETHER TO DEFEAT IT

Observance of International

Women’s Day

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ‘AN ATTACK ON ALL OF US’, DECLARES SECRETARY-GENERAL

AS UNITED NATIONS HOLDS EVENT TO COMMEMORATE INTERNATIONAL DAY

Panel Discussion among Highlight Activities; Worldwide Observance on Sunday

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ‘CANNOT BE TOLERATED’ IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, BY ANY POLITICAL

LEADER OR GOVERNMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT NEW YORK OBSERVANCE

 

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on International Women’s Day in New York, 5 March:

Secretary-General, in message, says world must work together, state at highest

 

level violence against women ‘will not be tolerated in any form’

 

Following is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Women’s Day, observed 8 March:

poverty, hunger, discrimination, rights denial continue to scar moral landscape,

 

says Secretary-General in message for inaugural world day of social justice

 

UNITED NATIONS TO OBSERVE HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 27 JANUARY;

 

EVENTS INCLUDE MEMORIAL CEREMONY, EXHIBITS, FILM SCREENING

 

AT HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORLD MUST REAFFIRM FAITH

IN HUMAN DIGNITY, ‘OUR MORAL STRENGTH –- EVEN AMID HISTORY’S DARKEST CHAPTERS’

Secretary-General, in message on day, says ‘LEt us remember’ holocaust victims

 

by reaffirming faith in dignity, equal rights of all members of human family

 

MULTIPLE ECONOMIC CRISES THREATEN TO REVERSE PROGRESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES,

‘POLICY RESPONSE MUST BE BOLD’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE

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

MIGRANTS MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED AS HUMAN BEINGS WHOSE RIGHTS, LIKE THOSE OF EVERYONE

 

ELSE, MUST BE PROTECTED, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

 

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