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This year’s World Water Day focuses on the links between water and jobs. Almost half of all workers – 1.5 billion people – work in water-related sectors, and nearly all jobs depend on the availability of freshwater. Despite…

UNHQ, New York 18 March 2016 The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General: In the build-up to the High-Level meeting on Global Responsibility…

I am delighted to offer best wishes for a happy Nowruz to all those celebrating around the world – and to the many others who can benefit from this rich cultural heritage. Nowruz is an ancient tradition with modern relevance…

“FROM THE GLASS CEILING TO A CARPET OF SHARDS” As a boy growing up in post-war Korea, I remember asking about a tradition I observed: women going into labor would leave their shoes at the threshold and then look back in fear…

[As prepared] Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, I thank the Centre for the Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence for inviting me to see its important work first-hand. The focus on preventing violent…

Amid large-scale atrocities and widespread abuses across the world, Human Rights Day should rally more concerted global action to promote the timeless principles that we have collectively pledged to uphold. In a year that…

The Secretary-General condemns the airstrikes by the Saudi-led Coalition that hit the Hayadeen Medical Hospital, run by Médecins Sans Frontières with support from UNICEF and the World Health Organization in Sa’dah governorate…

National flags are a mark of pride and patriotism in every country around the world. But there is only one flag that belongs to all of us. That blue flag of the United Nations was a banner of hope for me growing up in wartime…

Good data and statistics are indispensable for informed decision-making by all actors in society. This was explicitly acknowledged in 2014, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Fundamental Principles of…

NEW YORK, September 2015 -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held meetings with H.E. Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, H.E. Mr. Emomali Rahmon, President of the Republic of Tajikistan H.E. Mr…