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Ban Ki-moon

April 2016

  • Helen Clark

    Helen Clark, former New Zealand PM, enters race for UN secretary general

    Clark announces candidacy in New York in push to succeed Ban Ki-moon and become first woman to hold the position

March 2016

  • United Nations headquarters

    UN to hold secretary general job hustings for first time ever

  • Could the next UN secretary general be a woman? Irina Bokova, Angela Merkel and Helen Clark could be candidates.

    Who will succeed Ban Ki-moon? A guide to the possible candidates

  • Irina Bokova, Angela Merkel, Helen Clark

    UN workers want open race for next secretary general, survey reveals

  • Migrants and refugees block the railway tracks as they protest in makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border. Nearly half of the funds pledged at a conference in London have yet to be allocated according to the UN refugees chief.

    Half of $12bn refugee fund pledged at London meeting not disbursed

  • Reshaping humanitarian action
    Visualising a better world: new UN icons refocus humanitarian values

  • UN's own experts chastise Ban Ki-moon over handling of Haiti cholera outbreak

February 2016

  • A Syrian boy rides a bicycle through  Homs

    First test for Syrian truce after breaches reported on both sides

  • A Syrian boy holds a toy gun as he plays football between destroyed buildings in the old city of Homs.

    Syrian ceasefire begins but US expecting violations

  • UN chief Ban Ki-Moon pays tribute to former secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali

    UN chief Ban Ki-Moon pays tribute to Boutros Boutros-Ghali – video

  • canada justin trudeau united nations ban ki-moon

    Canada seeks UN security council seat in effort to re-establish ties, Trudeau says

  • Ban Ki-moon: ‘Close the gap between the world that is and the world that should be’

  • Women's rights and gender equality
    Ban Ki-moon says woman at helm of UN would be ‘a great idea’

  • End FGM campaign
    Ban Ki-moon calls on men across the world to campaign to end FGM

  • Ban Ki-moon adds to pressure on UK to stop arms sales to Saudis

  • Syria: we cannot go on like this, says Ban Ki-moon – video

January 2016

  • UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon

    UN urges business leaders to double investment in green energy by 2020

  • Palestinian Bedouin boys climb on the remains of their makeshift homes near al-Azariya, on the West Bank. The Israeli army said it demolished the homes as they were built illegally. The illegal Jewish settlement of Maale Adumin is seen in the background.

    Ban Ki-moon calls Israeli settlement expansion an 'affront' to the world

  • Ban Ki-moon speaks at a press conference ahead of the launch of the UN’s report on humanitarian financing in Dubai.

    Water in development
    Ban Ki-moon gathers heads of state for political response to water scarcity

  • Girls in headscarves wait in line.

    Women's rights and gender equality
    UN launches initiative for women’s economic empowerment at Davos

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