The United Nations today honoured the memory of an estimated 15 million innocent victims who suffered over four centuries as a result of the transatlantic slave trade, while highlighting the plight of millions more who still endure the brutality of modern slavery.
The Executive Representative and Head of the United Nations (UN) Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL), Jens Toyberg-Frandzen, will present the Tenth Report of the Secretary-General on the UN's Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leoneto the Security Council. UNTV
The UN Security Council opened its doors last weekend for French director Bertrand Tavernier to shoot a scene on the diplomatic wrangling preceding the Iraq war for his upcoming feature film “Quai D’Orsay”, starring Thierry Lermitte as former French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin. UNTV
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At the opening of the Four Freedoms Park on New York's Roosevelt Island, a memorial to American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said no single person was more instrumental in the founding of the United Nations. UNTV
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (26 July) paid his respects to the victims of Srebrenica and called on the world to learn the lessons from the 1995 massacre and stop the ongoing bloodshed in Syria. UNTV
Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez attended the UN Special Committee on Decolonization today at headquarters in New York to raise her concern with the Falkland Islands [Malvinas]. UNTV
The people of Timor-Leste celebrated the tenth anniversary of the restoration of independence on Sunday, which also coincided with the inauguration of the country’s new President, Taur Matan Ruak, who won presidential elections last month. UNMIT
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his deep sadness at the passing of Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, who died on Sunday (18 December). UNTV
The UN today recalled the inspiring legacy of Dag Hammarskjöld, who died 50 years ago this month in a plane crash at Ndola–Northern Rhodesia (Zambia). UNTV / ARCHIVE