UNITED NATIONS HAS MORAL DUTY TO ACT ON LESSONS OF RWANDA, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

IN MESSAGE TO MARK FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF 1994 GENOCIDE

 

new study seeks to show changing face of migration in southern africa

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES OPENING OF CROSSING IN CYPRIOT CAPITAL

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

Secretary-General, in message for world health day, stresses need to place

 

protection of most vulnerable at heart of global climate change agenda

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Health Day, observed on 7 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CONVENTION ON RIGHTS

 

OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND ITS OPTIONAL PROTOCOL

 

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

Secretary-General appoints catherine pollard of guyana as Assistant

Secretary-General for human resources management

 

Background Release

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

91^st Meeting (AM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

92^nd & 93^rd Meetings (AM & PM)

WITH 20 RATIFICATIONS, LANDMARK DISABILITY TREATY SET TO ENTER INTO FORCE ON 3 MAY

Ecuador today became the twentieth country to ratify the landmark Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which is now set to enter into force on 3 May.  The Convention needed 20 ratifications to take effect.