Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon message for International Women’s Day, to be observed under the theme “Equal rights, equal opportunities: progress for all” on 8 March: Gender equality and women’s empowerment are fundamental to the global mission of the United Nations to achieve equal rights and dignity for all. This is a matter […]
Cross-posted from the AIDS.gov blog. Approximately 200 people gathered on Wednesday to hear about progress on one of President Obama’s major initiatives—the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). This meeting provided an opportunity to update the public on the process for developing the Strategy, as well as current status and next steps. It allowed the White House […]
In September, the President announced that – for the first time in history – the White House would release visitor records. Today’s posting brings the grand total of records that this White House has released well over a 150,000 record milestone. You can view them all in our Disclosures section. These releases have provided the […]
As President Obama made clear at the bipartisan meeting on health insurance reform, and has emphasized all year, small businesses stand to gain substantially from his proposal for comprehensive health insurance reform. Small businesses are essential to the nation’s economy and its recovery from the recession. They are responsible for a disproportionate share of economy-wide […]
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s op-ed in the Washington Post today discusses the importance of providing direct student loans to help more poor and middle-class students attend college. He explains that under the current law, “working Americans pay while bankers get rich.” The banking industry is pushing against President Obama’s education proposal in order to […]
He Cites End of Second International Decade for Eradication Of Colonialism, Fiftieth Anniversary of Declaration on Granting Independence United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that 2010 would be an important year for the Special Committee on Decolonization because it marked both the end of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism […]
Head of United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime Antonio Maria Costa Briefs; Secretary-General: States Must Mount Comprehensive Response to Criminal Scourge With the top United Nations anti-drug official urging concerted global action to ?break the vicious circle between insecurity and underdevelopment? being increasingly fuelled by criminal networks, drug smugglers and human traffickers, the Security […]
Ed. Note: Watch video of the meeting in our section on the President’s proposal. Today’s bipartisan health care meeting offered something you rarely see in Washington: an open, honest, productive discussion between the political parties. Leaders from across the political spectrum gathered at Blair House to exchange thoughts about an issue that touches all of us: […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the 2010 session of the Special Committee of 24 on Decolonization, delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in New York, 25 February: It gives me pleasure to greet the Special Committee of 24 on Decolonization. This is an important year for the Committee. December […]
Imagine a problem facing a community — unemployment or homelessness, poverty or environmental degradation — and there’s a good chance a group of college students is finding a way to tackle it. At the Corporation for National and Community Service, we honor these students and their universities with the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor […]
