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THE SECRETARY-GENERAL -- MESSAGE ON WORLD AIDS DAY 01 December 2016
Thirty-five years since the emergence of AIDS, the international community can look back with some pride but we must also look ahead with resolve and commitment to reach our goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. There has…
Statement to the press by the United Nations Spokesperson
1 December 2016 - The Special Adviser of the Secretary-General (SASG) on Cyprus, Mr. Espen Barth Eide, will host the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mr. Mustafa Akıncı, and the Greek Cypriot leader, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, for dinner…
Press Conference of The Commission on Human Rights at the conclusion of its second visit to South Sudan
Shantal Persaud Acting Spokesperson: Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this press briefing that is also being broadcast live on UN Radio Miraya. Joining us today, are members of the UN Human Rights Commission…
From Love to Death; by Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Across the world tens of thousands of women and girls are being loved to death. Take a wide angle snapshot of these deaths and violent assaults and they become a recitation of women attacked in desperate circumstances…
Final Media Briefing by SRSG Ellen Margrethe Loej: 28 November 2016
Shantal Persaud Acting Spokesperson: Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to the United Nations Press briefing, which today will be given by SRSG Ellen Margrethe Loej. This may possibly be the final press briefing…
UNMISS PoC sites Update No.145
UNMISS PoC sites Update No.145
Near- verbatim transcript of UMISS Deputy SRSG for Political Affairs Moustapha Soumare and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Mr. Peter Bandi on SSBC
November 25, 2016 DSRSG Soumare –2304 and a joint communique .With regard to RPF the government is recommending now that everything be put in place so that the RPF can be deployed as soon as possible. It is also clear now…
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL -- MESSAGE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAY TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS 25 November 2016
At long last, there is growing global recognition that violence against women and girls is a human rights violation, public health pandemic and serious obstacle to sustainable development. Yet there is still much more we can…
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL -- MESSAGE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAY TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS 25 November 2016
The success of the Sustainable Development Goals, will depend, in part, on how well stakeholders invest and support the young girls of today, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). The announcement was made as the…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon visits UNRCCA
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – On 26 November, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the office of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) in Ashgabat during his official visit to Turkmenistan…