Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the forty-seventh Annual Herbert H. Lehman Memorial Lecture at Lehman College, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, observed on 25 March:

NEW YORK, 16 March (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The United Nations Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR) is calling for applications for rapid response funding to emergency situations in the field of weapons management.

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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Commission on the Status of Women high-level event “The Time is Now!  Let’s End Harmful Practices against Women and Girls by 2030”, in New York today:

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

NEW YORK, 15 March (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — The United Nations announced today that Abdulqadir Rashik has won the Unite Ideas #LinksSDGs Data Visualization Challenge.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Women’s Empowerment Principles Annual Event, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Every Woman, Every Child high-level event co-organized with UN-Women, in New York today:

On 14 March 2016, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea adopted its second implementation assistance notice entitled “Summary of arms embargo restrictions in place for Somalia and Eritrea, including exemptions”.