The North Korean government should take steps to improve human rights in the Asian country, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.
The top United Nations official said the current state of human rights in North Korea was an unacceptable
Ban Ki-moon met today with top officials in his native Republic of Korea, on the second day of his first official visit to the country since taking office as United Nations Secretary-General over 18 months ago.
Mr. Ban held talks with President Lee
Seoul - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on the second day of a visit to his South Korean homeland, called on North Korea Friday to improve the human rights situation there. There few areas of North Korean life where human rights were
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is downplaying speculation in the media he may be headed to North Korea for a short visit. Speaking in his native South Korea, the U.N. chief did call on North Korea to improve its human rights, and urged
Ban Ki-moon, the former South Korean foreign minister now serving as United Nations secretary-general, said yesterday he was “somewhat ashamed” that his country was not contributing more to UN aid programmes and peacekeeping operations during his first
On June 27, Robert Mugabe stole an election. He did so in plain view of journalists, aid workers, diplomats and heads of state. His brutality before the vote resulted in the deaths of about 100 Zimbabweans, the detention of some 2,000, injury to 10,000
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Tanzania does not recognise Mr Robert Mugabe as the legally elected President of Zimbabwe because last Friday's presidential run-off, which was boycotted by the opposition, was "highly flawed", Foreign Affairs
SEOUL, South Korea — U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon told his fellow South Koreans on Friday to trust and support the country's leaders following weeks of protests against U.S. beef imports that have rocked the government.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
George Charamba, a spokesperson for the widely criticized leader of Zimbabwe, has said that critics of the situation in the country should "go hang a thousand times".
At a press conference today Chambera was asked whether a national unity government,
SEOUL: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged his fellow South Koreans on Friday to do more for the world, saying they have a responsibility to help others.
Calling his appeal "a sobering message" for Koreans, Ban said in a speech to parliament that