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  1. Secretary-General's message on World Digestive Health Day [scroll down for French]

    ... urban settings.  The vast majority of overweight or obese children live in developing countries, where the rate of increase has been more ... Health Assembly has established targets to curb obesity in children, adolescents and adults by 2025.  At current rates of progress, none ...

  2. Note to Correspondents: UN Secretary-General's letter to G20 leaders [please scroll down for French and Spanish versions]

    ... most of the extra care work in the wake of the pandemic.  Children’s education is disrupted across the globe, especially in the poorest ...

  3. Secretary-General's message on the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action [scroll down for French version]

    ... forcibly displaced, the dispossessed, and children. They impede peaceful solutions, hinder humanitarian ...

  4. Secretary-General's message on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade [scroll down for French version]

    ... the immense contributions that enslaved men, women and children made to the culture, knowledge and economies of the countries to which ...

  5. Secretary-General's message on World Malaria Day [scroll down for French version]

    ... claims the lives of more than 400,000 people, mainly young children in Africa.  And, every year, there are more than 200 million new ...

  6. Secretary-General's message on International Widows' Day [scroll down for French version]

    ... identity, land rights, property, income, and possibly their children.  Their physical safety is at greater risk, just when they may be ...

  7. Note to Correspondents: Peacekeeper from Burkina Faso serving in Mali receives 2022 United Nations Woman Police Officer Award [scroll down for French]

    ... career has focused on protecting and promoting women’s and children’s rights, including between 2013 to 2015, when she was a gender ... and the Regional Brigade for the Protection of Women and Children, a unit of the national police, as an investigator on sexual violence ...

  8. Secretary-General's message on the International Day of Democracy [scroll down for French version]

    ... the Next Generation” – focuses on the essential role of children and young people in safeguarding democracy today and in the future. It is not enough to listen to children and young people. We must support them with massive investments in ...

  9. Secretary-General's remarks to the General Assembly Fifth Consultation on Our Common Agenda [bilingual, as delivered; scroll down for all-English and all-French versions]

    ...   Failure to do so increases the likelihood that our children, or their children, are forced to rebuild the international order in the aftermath of ...

  10. Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the Democratic Republic of the Congo [scroll down for French]

    ... of the Congo. At least 38 civilians, including women and children, were killed at the Blakete-Plitu mining site. More civilians were ...