NO POLICY FOR PROGRESS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN REMARKS TO WOMEN’S DAY OBSERVANCE

Following is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on International Women’s Day, 8 March:

Observance of International

Women’s Day

WOMEN’S ROLE IN DECISION-MAKING CENTRAL TO PROGRESS OF HUMANKIND,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT WOMEN’S DAY OBSERVANCE

Says World is Ready for Woman as United Nations Secretary-General

In message for women’s day, General Assembly President calls

for ‘much greater progress’ in education of girls

 

Following is the text of the message by General Assembly President Jan Eliasson ( Sweden) for International Women’s Day, 8 March:

WOMEN MUST TAKE RIGHTFUL PLACE IN WORLD’S DECISION-MAKING,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Women’s Day, observed 8 March:

Remembering is safeguard for future, Secretary-General says in message

 

for first international day Honouring memory of holocaust victims

 

IN MESSAGE COMMEMORATING HOLOCAUST VICTIMS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

CALLS FOR COMMITMENT TO PREVENT RECURRENCE OF GENOCIDE IN FUTURE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT PAYS TRIBUTE TO HOLOCAUST VICTIMS,

SURVIVORS AT CANDLELIGHT VIGIL

Developing countries should involve skills of ‘global diasporas’ in development

 

process, says Secretary-General in message on day for south-south cooperation

 

IN MIGRANTS DAY MESSAGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR SAFEGUARDING HUMAN RIGHTS

OF ALL WHO CROSS BORDERS ‘IN SEARCH FOR A BETTER LIFE’

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Migrants Day, observed on 18 December:

IN MESSAGE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

CALLS FOR PROMPT ESTABLISHMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Following is the message by General Assembly President Jan Eliasson ( Sweden) on the occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December: