United Nations – Secretary General, Security Council, General Assembly  [to 14 March 2015]
Selected Press Releases/Meetings Coverage
http://www.un.org/en/unpress/

13 March 2015
DSG/SM/853-WOM/2030
Deputy Secretary-General, at New York Event, Urges Action to End Discrimination, Inequality by 2030, Stressing Societal Attitudes Still Stacked against Women
Following are the closing remarks of UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, as prepared for delivery, at the Commission on the Status of Women Intergenerational Dialogue on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, held in New York today:

9 March 2015
SG/A/1553-BIO/4702-IHA/1353
Secretary-General Appoints Stephen O’Brien of United Kingdom Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Stephen O’Brien of the United Kingdom as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

9 March 2015
WOM/2021
‘As Women Thrive, So Will We All,’ Says Secretary-General as Women’s Commission Opens Session, Pointing to ‘Unacceptably Slow’ Progress since Beijing
“As women thrive, so will we all,” said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as he opened the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women today, marking two decades of progress that he warned had been “unacceptably slow” in achieving gender equality since the historic adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995.

8 March 2015
SG/SM/16576-IK/702
Secretary-General Outraged by Continued Destruction of Iraqi Cultural Sites, Calls for Swift International Action to Hold Perpetrators Accountable