Ban Ki Moon is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in South Korea. Ban Ki Moon will succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2007.
This portal will track blogs, news, and photos of Ban Ki Moon, and will...
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Ban Ki Moon is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in South Korea. Ban Ki Moon will succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2007.
This portal will track blogs, news, and photos of Ban Ki Moon, and will provide a forum for all members to share opinions of the upcoming UN General.
Activists Tuesday filed a petition with South Korea's human rights watchdog, seeking an end to mandatory HIV tests for some foreign workers. A group representing HIV carriers, a migrants' trade union and three other rights groups said in their petition that the policy breaches the rights of migrant workers, according to the National Human Rights Commission which received the document. Foreign applicants must prove they do not have HIV to qualify for work in the entertainment sector or low... Read Full Story
As world leaders prepare to converge on the U.N. climate change convention in Copenhagen next week, the belief in global warming and climate change is increasingly becoming less science and more religion. In fact, Al Gore himself, the one being called the "eco-prophet" and "the Moses of this generation" recently admitted as much. In his new book, "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis", Gore focuses on the "spiritual side" of fighting global warming. As far as allowing the... Read Full Story
Some 80 countries still penalise homosexuals, including passing criminal laws that fuel discrimination against them, the joint UN programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) said.
On World AIDS Day, UNAIDS said that such laws have prevented effective national responses to help those living with HIV and are a violation of their human rights. World AIDS Day is held annually Dec 1.
It cited Tuesday the decision by the Delhi High Court in India for striking down an anti-sodomy law penalising... Read Full Story
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Home / Let's Be Cynical / I Really Can’t Treat The UN Seriously. Especially With A Frontman Like That
November 24, 2009
What is this guy, Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary General, about? Is he for real or what? Should anyone treat him seriously or is he just a stand-up comedian, who comes out before the world media and says funny things, without expecting us to take him seriously?
Because I honestly believe that seasoned hacks cannot really treat Ban... Read Full Story
A Danish sports official says U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon will attend next week's Olympic Congress in Copenhagen. Niels Nygaard, the president of Denmark's national Olympic committee, says Ban will speak at the opening of the Oct. 3-5 meeting. Nygaard says Friday the Danish organizers are "proud" to welcome Ban to Copenhagen. The International Olympic Committee meetings kick off Oct. 1. The following day, the IOC will elect a city that will host the 2016 Olympics. Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro... Read Full Story
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who last year made an abortive White House bid, said here Wednesday she enjoyed her role as president...of the UN Security Council. "I kind of like being president," she quipped as she chaired a council meeting on sexual violence against women in armed conflict. "So this may go on a little longer than anticipated." Her remarks sparked laughter from her council colleagues and the US chief diplomat beamed when, after she introduced Ban Ki-moon, the UN... Read Full Story
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday said that new infections are fast out-pacing the gains achieved in controlling the spread of HIV, and urged all countries to stop discrimination against the HIV-infected. Read Full Story
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he is willing to visit North Korea to help defuse tensions on the Korean peninsula. "Whatever I can do as the secretary-general I am willing to do, including my own visit to Pyongyang at this time," Ban told a regular monthly news conference. "I need to find out when would be an appropriate timing for me to visit. I am not able to give you any answer at this time," said Ban, who was South Korea's foreign minister... Read Full Story
"Secretary-General, in Message to Mark International Day for Slavery’s Abolition, Says List of Similarly Abhorrent Modern Practices Is ‘Shockingly Long’. SourceReally?"In our globalized world, new forms of slavery have taken shape. The list of abhorrent practices, new and old, is now shockingly long, and includes debt bondage, serfdom, forced labour, child labour and servitude, trafficking of persons and human organs, sexual sla... Read Full Story
Ban Ki Moon
From Times Online:
The UN Secretary-General caved in to demands to brief the Security Council on his trip to Sri Lanka yesterday after calls mounted for an international war crimes inquiry into the fighting this year.
Ban Ki Moon was to address the Security Council in a closed-door session last night after Russia and China failed to keep Sri Lanka off the council’s agenda.
The briefing came as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reiterated calls for an independent... Read Full Story
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