Accountability key to ensuring development progress beyond 2015 – UN officials
As Member States continue work on a new post-2015 development agenda, United Nations officials today stressed the need for a robust yet flexible accountability framework to assess progress and achieve...
View ArticleUkraine: Ban welcomes release of abducted military observers, urges calm as...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the release earlier today of European military monitors and accompanying Ukrainian staff abducted a week ago in the country’s crisis-torn eastern region, even...
View ArticleIndigenous Forum opens with UN officials highlighting sustainable development...
Indigenous peoples must be a part of the ongoing process to define a global development agenda beyond 2015, United Nations officials said today, calling for explicit assertion of their collective...
View ArticleSyria: UN-Arab League envoy Brahimi resigns
Amidst an international community “hopelessly divided” over how to end more than three years of bloodshed in Syria, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced that he has regretfully accepted the...
View ArticleCrises in Ukraine, Syria top agenda at meeting between Ban and Russia’s Putin
With Ukrainians preparing to elect a new president on Sunday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today sat down with Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he also discussed a...
View ArticleOn Africa Day, Ban urges leveraging continent’s potential for the good of all...
The world must do more to unleash Africa’s full potential in agriculture, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said while also urging the continent’s leaders and development partners to...
View ArticleSecurity Council prioritizes civilian protection as it extends UN mission in...
The Security Council today extended the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and revised its mandate to give priority to the task of protecting civilians and to address the security,...
View ArticleIn Toronto, Ban says ensuring health of women, children ‘best investment we...
Despite major global progress in improving the health of children and their mothers, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged participants at a summit in Toronto to show the leadership,...
View Article#Youth2015: young people unite at UN forum to shape future development agenda
Young people from more than 1,000 youth organizations have gathered today at United Nations Headquarters to add their voices to the ongoing discussion about a new global agenda that will succeed the...
View ArticleUN chief hopes Ukraine peace plan will reduce violence, ease tensions
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has hailed a peace plan put forward by Ukraine’s President, Petro Poroshenko, and said he hopes it will reduce violence and tensions in the eastern part of...
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