Announcing the launch of the Global Research Benchmarking System (GRBS) at a Headquarters press conference today, Jean-Marc Coicaud, Director of the United Nations University, said that university performance was comprised of complex and informative components and, as such, more than numbers defined their ranking. Earlier in the day, at the event ?Ranking is not Enough: […]
World?s Women 2010: Trends and Statistics, launched today on the occasion of World Statistics Day showed overall progress in areas such as school enrolment, health, and economic participation, but made clear that more needed to be done in such areas as closing the gender gap in public life and violence against women, a top […]
When women had access to the same rights and opportunities as men, they were more resilient to conflict and disaster, which could lead to better reconstruction efforts in their societies, according to Richard Kollodge, the editor of a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report launched at Headquarters today. (Also released today was World?s Women […]
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Addresses Committee; Also Hears UN Experts on Myanmar; Minority Issues; Palestinian Territories Human rights were too often discussed in the abstract and, despite all the changes in the past 60 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, the collective challenge remained the same ? bringing […]
Opening Information Segment, Public Information Chief Kiyo Akasaka Spotlights Vastly Expanded Outreach, Social Media Use, Including Youtube, Twitter, Facebook To tackle the challenges posed by a constantly evolving global communications environment, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Kiyo Akasaka, today told the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) that the Department of […]
Hears from Two UN Experts ? Chairs of Monitoring Body for Convention Against Torture; Subcommittee on Prevention, Created by Optional Protocol More than a quarter-century after its adoption, the objectives of the Convention against Torture had yet to be achieved, and the entire human rights treaty body system was slowed under a backlog of […]
Members Hail Progress Made in Security, Socio-Economic Spheres While Warning of Dangers Posed by High Youth Unemployment Rates Timor-Leste was entering a crucial period that would help determine whether the country had overcome the political and institutional weaknesses that had contributed to the violent events of 2006, the Head of the United Nations Mission […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the City Hall of Strasbourg, today, 19 October: I am very happy to be here in Strasbourg. Thank you for your warm welcome. I am delighted to be here, in this historic Grand Salon, where the Council of Europe was born. This morning I was privileged […]
This is the text of an address by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today to the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, France: Good afternoon, buenas tardes, bonjour, gueta dag. Je suis très honoré de m?adresser au Parlement européen. Estoy muy feliz de estar en Estrasburgo. It is a great honour to be here addressing the European […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General strongly condemns today’s attack in Najaf, Iraq, on a United Nations convoy carrying his Special Representative for Iraq, Ad Melkert, his Deputy Special Representative, Jerzy Skuratowicz, and United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) staff. All United Nations […]
