Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (at podium, third from left) addresses the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Commission on Population and Development at its forty-fifth session, on the theme, “Adolescents and Youth”. Mr. Ban stressed the need to provide reproductive health care for young people, as well as give them access to the necessary information and the means to protect themselves from sexual abuse and violence.

With Mr. Ban, from left: Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA); Marjon V. Kamara, Permanent Representative of Liberia to the UN and Vice-President of the General Assembly; Hasan Kleib (Indonesia), Chair of the session; Muhammad Shaaban, Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Management; and Jomo Kwame Sundaram, UN Assistant-Secretary-General for Economic Development.