Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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2011-10-03
| This month, the Millennium Villages Project launches its second five-year stage. Around Africa, and now around the world, governments are scaling up the lessons from this project and others like it: empower communities, help them to invest in their futures using cutting-edge technologies, and thereby end extreme poverty.... read |
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2011-09-26
| Late next month, a child will be born – the 7th billion citizen of planet Earth. We will never know the circumstances into which he or she was born, but we do know the global imperatives that this child, and future generations, will face.... read |
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2011-05-18
| As the UN Conference on Disarmament begins a seven-week session in Geneva, its future is on the line. Whereas countries and civil-society initiatives are on the move, the Conference has stagnated. Its credibility – indeed, its very legitimacy – is at risk.... read |
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2010-12-16
| NEW YORK – The United Nations today leads what seems at times like a double life. On the one hand, pundits criticize it for not solving all the world’s ills. On the other hand, UN member states and people around the world are asking it to do more, in more places, than ever before – a trend that will continue in 2011.... read |
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2010-12-07
| The pain and suffering in Haiti arising from last year’s earthquake was already enormous, and has since been compounded by Hurricane Tomas, growing political tensions, and the outbreak of cholera. While the UN and its many partners will help Haiti to get back on its feet, at the end of the day, Haitians can stand only on their own.... read |
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2010-06-16
| Africa has made great strides over the past decade in providing life-saving treatment to HIV patients. But there is a new and growing danger that these advances might not be sustained, owing to high demand and dwindling financial support.... read |
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2010-05-06
| Mothers’ Day is upon us in many countries around the world, and children of all ages will give flowers, make breakfast, call home. But becoming a mother can carry a terrible burden of fear, anxiety, and loss for many women and their families.... read |
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2010-02-11
| Cyprus is at a critical juncture, with the Greek Cypriot leader, Demetirs Christofias, and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart, Mehmet Ali Talat, working hard to reach an agreement to overcome more than 45 years of conflict and division. But a solution, while overwhelmingly in the interests of all Cypriots, will elude them without a further concerted push.... read |
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2009-09-27
| If ever there were a time to act in a spirit of renewed multilateralism, a time to put the “united” back into the United Nations, it is now. And that is what the UN is doing, as action on three issues of historic consequence - climate change, nuclear disarmament, and economic justice - demonstrates.
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My Plan to Drop the Bomb
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Ban Ki-moon 
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Sixty-three years after the world agreed to pursue nuclear disarmament, and 39 years after the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty entered into force, more than 20,000 such weapons reportedly remain, with many still on high alert. But after a decade of inaction, disarmament is back on the international agenda.... read
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2009-06-15
| The World Health Organization has now officially declared the H1N1 flu virus to be a global pandemic, and governments, international organizations, and people around the world are rightly focused on fighting it. But, even as we cope with today’s challenge, we must look ahead - guided by the same principle of global solidarity - to potentially far more serious health risks.... read |
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2008-12-01
| The coming year will be a narrative of tension – a series of difficult choices between the imperatives of the present and those of tomorrow. Fortunately, the pendulum of history is swinging back toward the United Nations and collective action.... read |
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2008-10-21
| The world has experienced great economic transformations throughout history: the industrial revolution, the technology revolution, the era of globalization. We are now on the threshold of another – the age of green economics – which promises to bring the growth, jobs, and prosperity that we now so desperately need.... read |
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2011-10-03
| This month, the Millennium Villages Project launches its second five-year stage. Around Africa, and now around the world, governments are scaling up the lessons from this project and others like it: empower communities, help them to invest in their futures using cutting-edge technologies, and thereby end extreme poverty.... read |
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2009-05-18
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| The last two years have brought a series of crises: energy, food, climate change, and global recession - and worse may be in store. Indeed, today’s global economic crisis, if not handled properly, could evolve into a full-scale political crisis – one defined by social unrest, weakened governments, and angry publics who have lost faith in their leaders and their future.... read |
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2008-11-19
| A world free of nuclear weapons is a global public good of the highest order. If there is real, verified progress on eliminating these weapons and their components, the ability to eliminate the nuclear threat, whether from states or terrorists, will grow exponentially.... read |
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2008-09-22
| Today's many global perils - including financial, energy, and food crises - make concerted global action more necessary than ever. If we are to succeed, the UN must be made more accountable - but so must its member states.... read |
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2007-12-03
| We may or may not be witnessing the dawn of the Asia-Pacific Century. But no one can deny the importance of Asia’s rise - or that diplomacy must be at the heart of that process.... read |
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2009-07-31
| Sixty-three years after the world agreed to pursue nuclear disarmament, and 39 years after the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty entered into force, more than 20,000 such weapons reportedly remain, with many still on high alert. But after a decade of inaction, disarmament is back on the international agenda.... read |
