The Security Council this morning decided to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad for two months, as discussions on its future continued with the Chadian Government. Determining that the situation in the region remained a threat to international peace and security, the Council unanimously adopted […]
Experts Acknowledge Difficulties Country Faces, but Say Civil Society Reports Show Progress towards Democracy, Rule of Law Halted, Even Reversed in Some Cases From the very beginning of its independence just 18 years ago, Uzbekistan had sought to protect and promote the civil and political rights of all its citizens and had moved swiftly to […]
Says New Special Envoy on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Margot Wallström, To Help Turn Promises into Action; She First Visits Democratic Republic of Congo United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon today called on the international community to urgently join forces to end one of the most brutal and entrenched forms of gender discrimination ‑‑ violence against […]
A multimedia exhibition illustrating the impact of malaria will open to the public on Monday, 15 March, in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Entitled “Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears”, the exhibition features photographs from the travels of award-winning photographer Adam Nadel to malaria-endemic countries including Cambodia, […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General condemns the series of attacks in Pakistan which has occurred in recent days. These include the suicide bombing today in Lahore which killed and injured scores of people as well as the attack on the office of the […]
On 11 March 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the two entries specified below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII […]
There had been no change of policy since 2007 on Israel?s blockade of the Gaza Strip and as a consequence, reconstruction activities in the enclave had barely started, the top United Nations humanitarian official said at Headquarters today. At a press conference on his trip to the Middle East last week, John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for […]
(Delayed in transmission.) Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), delivered by Haile Menkerios, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, in Nairobi on 9 March: It is a pleasure to greet all the participants in this important meeting. I thank His Excellency Minister Moses Wetang?ula and the […]
The following statement was issued yesterday by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General condemns the approval of plans for the building of 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem by the Israeli Ministry of Interior earlier today. He reiterates that settlements are illegal under international law. Furthermore, he underscores that settlement […]
With the approach of the 1,000 day mark since the start of the blockade against Gaza, an illegal economy was being imposed on the territory?s people, who now depended on goods imported through illegal tunnels, Filippo Grandi, the newly appointed Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near […]
