GENDER EQUALITY A PREREQUISITE FOR ATTAINING ALL OTHER DEVELOPMENT GOALS, STRESSES

SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS TO INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY EVENT

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD WATER DAY, CALLS LACK OF POLITICAL WILL

BIGGEST CULPRIT IN FAILURE TO ACHIEVE BASIC SANITATION GOAL

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Water Day, to be observed on 22 March:

GLOBAL ANTI-POVERTY GOALS CAN BE MET ‘ONLY BY INVESTING IN THE WORLD’S WOMEN

 

AND GIRLS’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN INTERNATIONAL DAY MESSAGE

 

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

UNITED NATIONS TO OBSERVE HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY ON 28 JANUARY 2008

Week-Long Events Include Concert, Exhibits, Educational Briefings, Film Screenings

United Nations, iSRAEL pOST issue Holocaust REMEMBRANCE StampS

Today, the United Nations Postal Administration is launching a new stamp in observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

LET US NEVER TAKE OUR HUMAN RIGHTS FOR GRANTED, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES

IN MESSAGE TO MARK INTERNATIONAL DAY IN MEMORY OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN INTERNATIONAL DAY MESSAGE, STRESSES migrants should

 

not be seen as burden but assets to society

 

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

universal declaration should be integral part of everyone’s life,

 

Secretary-General says in message to mark human rights day

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on Human Rights Day, to be observed on 10 December:

ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS POVERTY,

 

SOCIAL EXCLUSION, DISCRIMINATION ALLOW CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY TO FESTER

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS VOLUNTEERS PLAY INDISPENSABLE ROLE IN TACKLING VAST,

COMPLEX GLOBAL CHALLENGES, IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY

Following is the text of the message of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon for the commemorational of International Volunteer Day, observed 5 December: