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  1. Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council on Ukraine [Bilingual, as delivered, follows. Scroll further down for all-English version]

    ... Thousands of Ukrainian civilians, including hundreds of children, have been killed and injured, mostly by Russian bombardment of urban areas.   Every day, an average of five children are killed or injured. Almost every child in Ukraine has been scarred ...

  2. Secretary-General's Remarks to the Media at the Closing of the High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals

    ... $1 billion plan to save the lives of 10 million mothers and children by the year 2015. Norway pledged $1 billion to fight ...

  3. Secretary-General's video message to ceremony marking 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [scroll down for French version]

    ... We see human trafficking, the exploitation of children, and a host of other ills plaguing millions of people. The ...

  4. The Secretary-General's Video Message to the Agadir International Forum on the National Initiative of Human Development

    ... although additional effort is needed in education and in children's and maternal health. The country's experience tells us that ...

  5. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at UNA-USA Members Day at the United Nations

    ... We have improved the lives of 200 million slum dwellers.  Children learn to read and write as never before. But we have not reached ... i.e. toilets, which is the main reason why more than 3,000 children under the age of five die every day from diarrhea, dysentery, ...

  6. Secretary-General's remarks to Foreign Policy and United Nations Association of Austria

    ... Next week I will launch a global effort on women's and children's health in New York. I have invited heads of state and business ... tests had been conducted. So many people, particularly children, are still suffering from the effects. It caused a terrible impact on ...

  7. Secretary-General's message to Summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region on the Situation of Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

    ... sexual violence, summary executions, and the recruitment of children as combatants.  Such grave crimes need to be investigated by relevant ...

  8. Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council on the adoption of a Resolution concerning the Humanitarian Situation in Syria

    ... have carried out summary executions, the recruitment of children for combat and the use of terror tactics in civilian areas. ...

  9. Deputy Secretary-General's opening remarks at commission on social development side event: “Poverty eradication: from policy to local action”

    ... the Foundation aims to increase the number of Nigerian children who can access life-ensuring vaccines, with the focus on the most vulnerable and hardest to reach children.   Similar work is underway elsewhere in Africa, such as in ...

  10. Secretary-General's remarks at Annual High-Level Pledging Conference for the UN Central Emergency Response Fund [as delivered]

    ... services funded by CERF are particularly important for the children and pregnant women who suffer most from hunger and malnutrition.   ...