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UN Secretary-General's message to High-level panel discussion on Regional Dimensions of Promoting Sustainable Development

24 September 2016 | Statement

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL Message to High-level panel discussion on "Regional Dimensions of Promoting Sustainable Development: Developing Complementarities between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Community Vision 2025” New York, 24 September 2016 [Delivered by Dr. David Nabarro, Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development] I thank the Thai Government for its initiative in convening today’s meeting. The partnership between ASEAN and the United Nations continues to grow more solid and substantive, most recently thr…

World Statistics Day

20 October 2015 | Statement

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 Official Statistics to promote citizen’s entitlement to public information. As countries and organizations embark on implementing the ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, reliable and timely statistics and indicators are more important than ever. For that reason, World Statistics Day this year is being observed under the theme “Better data, better lives.” We …

International Women’s Day 2015

6 March 2015 | Statement

Twenty years ago, when the world convened a landmark conference on women’s human rights, the devastating conflict in the former Yugoslavia prompted deserved attention to rape and other war crimes there against civilians. Two decades later, with girls as young as seven not only targeted but used as weapons by violent extremists, it would be easy to lose heart about the value of international gatherings. But while we have a long way to go to achieve full equality – with ending gender-based violence a central goal – progress over the past two decades has proven the enduring value of the 1995 Beij…

World Day for Social Justice

20 February 2015 | Statement

World Day for Social Justice comes at a pivotal moment for people and our planet. Around the world, there is a rising call to secure a life of dignity for all with equal rights and respect for the diverse voices of the world’s peoples. At the core of this movement lies the need for social justice. This year’s commemoration focuses on the scourge of human trafficking and the plight of approximately 21 million women, men and children in various forms of modern slavery. New instruments such as the ILO Protocol and Recommendation on forced labour and human trafficking are he…

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust 2015

27 January 2015 | Statement

Seventy years ago today, allied forces liberated Auschwitz Birkenau, the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp. More than a million inmates, primarily Jews, were brutally and systematically killed in the place where the Nazis introduced the monstrous concept of “industrialized murder”. Among the other victims were non-Jewish Poles, political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, Sinti and Roma, homosexuals, disabled persons and Jehovah’s witnesses. Unprecedented in human history, this mass killing was motivated by the perverse, race-based ideology of the Nazis, who sought to track dow…

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day

17 May 2013 | Statement

I welcome the focus on road safety for this year's World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. Road accidents kill nearly 1.3 million people every year. They leave millions more injured or permanently disabled, placing a heavy economic burden on families and countries. The United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety from 2011 to 2020 is dedicated to helping to make roads and vehicles safer worldwide. Information and communication technologies provide many options. Intelligent Transport Systems and navigation devices can help reduce congestion. Radars can help to p…

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