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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Key Priorities

Sustainable development

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A safer and more secure world

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The importance of prevention

Helping countries in transition

Doing more for the world's women and young people

Enablers
Two forces that will make all the difference

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Engaging the Public

Global Citizen Festival

Ban Ki-moon on stage at the Global Citizen Festival with UN Peace Messenger Stevie Wonder; together with 60,000 activists in Central Park, they lifted their voices to end extreme poverty.

Speaking to graduates

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged young scholars to “change the world” through global citizenship, and to help the United Nations respond as “one human family.”

Climate change and youth

Secretary-General holds a video conference with a group of youth attending the Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. The UN wants to ensure their voices are heard, he told them.

'I need your engagement'

The Secretary-General meets members of youth organizations in Madrid during events marking the 1000-day countdown to the target date of reaching UN’s anti-poverty goals.

The historic adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals last month underscores a long-standing truth: there will be no peace without development, no development without peace, and neither without respect for human rights.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in remarks to General Assembly debate on peace operations, 12 October 2015

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In Focus

A vision for the next five years

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Entering his 2nd term at the UN’s helm, the Secretary-General outlined his five-year Action Agenda, a plan "to build the future we want."

Address to General Assembly – Video

Advancing Global Health

Every Woman Every Child: Mother and Child

Spearheading a global effort to mobilize and intensify global action to improve the health of women and children around the world.

Global Pulse

Launching a project to close the information gap between the onset of global crises and the availability of actionable information for decision makers.

Multilingualism

As part of his ongoing efforts to promote the equality of the six official languages at the UN, Secretary-General names a new Coordinator for Multilingualism.

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