Press Release

The fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women opens on 4 March at United Nations Headquarters, and will focus on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls, including two key areas — preventing violence and providing support services and responses to female survivors.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York on 4 March:

On 4 March 2013, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) decided to update the lists of items referred to in paragraph 13 of resolution 1929 (2010) as follows:

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, in conjunction with the World Future Council, is pleased to announce that the 2013 Future Policy Award will be presented at New York Headquarters just before the start of United Nations Disarmament Week (24-30 October).

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the High-Level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming at the Human Rights Council, in Geneva, 1 March:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Ray Chambers of the United States as his Special Envoy for Malaria and for the Financing of the Health-Related Millennium Development Goals.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s annual Sergio Vieira de Mello Lecture, as prepared for delivery, in Geneva on 1 March:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated Eduardo Rojas-Briales as Commissioner-General for the Organization’s participation in Expo 2015, in Milan, Italy. Mr. Rojas-Briales is the Assistant Director-General for Forestry at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the fifth Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, in Vienna, 27 February: