Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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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
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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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2009-07-31
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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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2009-07-27
| NEW YORK – A light bulb may not be the first thing that springs to mind when thinking about revolutionary technology. Yet science and smart policy have the potential in today’s world to transform an ordinary household object into a revolutionary innovation. ... read |
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2009-07-03
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The last two years have witnessed a cascade of interconnected crises: financial panic, rising food and oil prices, climate shocks, a flu pandemic, and more. As world leaders arrive for the G-8 Summit in Italy, they will have to update their politics to grapple with problems that, more than ever before, none of them can solve alone.... 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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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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Taking the Long View
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Ban Ki-moon 
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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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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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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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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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2009-06-15
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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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2008-11-14
| As the G-20's meeting in Washington showed, today's global economic crisis is unique and potentially overwhelming. And how we address it will be a crucial test of the global solidarity that we will need to address other serious challenges - unacceptable levels of poverty and hunger, the food crisis, climate change - that we cannot afford to ignore.... 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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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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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 |
