THE SECRETARY-GENERAL-----MESSAGE ON UNITED NATIONS DAY FOR SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION19 December 2011This United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation comes at the end of a dramatic year marked by popular protests against inequality, indignity and oppression.

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL-----MESSAGE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DAY10 December 2011Human rights belong to every one of us without exception. But unless we know them, unless we demand they be respected, and unless we defend our right -- and the right of others --  to exercise them, they will be just words in a decades-old document.

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL-----MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION DAY9 December 2011Corruption afflicts all countries, undermining social progress and breeding inequality and injustice.

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL-----MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY   5 December 2011Beginning with the words “We the peoples”, the United Nations Charter reminds us that crafting solutions to global challenges is a job not only for Governments, but for people, communities and civil society.

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL-----MESSAGE ON WORLD AIDS DAY 1 December 2011Heading into the fourth decade of AIDS, we are finally in a position to end the epidemic.The progress we have made so far is proof that we can realize our vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.