Tag: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-Moon: Africa Leaders Should Respect Gay Rights
Repost from Huffington Post ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says African nations should stop treating gays as “second-class citizens, or even criminals”. Ban told African…
Read moreUN Releases Video and Pamphlet to Mark the International Day Against Homophobia
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the highest human rights official in the UN system, released a video and a pamphlet last week decrying violence and discrimination…
Read moreBan Ki-moon statement calling for an end to human rights violations
During a special sitting at the United Nations on January 25, 2010, Ban Ki-moon delivered a powerful statement calling for an end to human rights violations based on…
Read moreU.S. will press for a major UN vote to restore language in a resolution on extrajudicial killings
UN, New York, Dec. 10—In a speech at a UN event to mark International Human Rights Day, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice today announced that the U.S. will press…
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