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eBiz Africa Review
Summer 2013 /
Été 2013
OPINION LEADER /
LEADER D’0PINION
”I grew up in war…,” the Secretary-
General has said, “…and saw the
United Nations help my country
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experience was a big part of
what led me to pursue a career
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General, I am determined to see
this organization deliver tangible,
meaningful results that advance
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BAN KI-MOON,
THE BALANCE BETWEEN NATIONS
Ban Ki-moon is the eighth Secretary-General
of the United Nations. His priorities have been
to mobilize world leaders around a set of
new global challenges, from climate change
and economic upheaval to pandemics
and increasing pressures involving food,
energy, and water. He has sought to be a
bridge-builder, to give voice to the world’s
poorest and most vulnerable peoples and to
strengthen the organization itself.
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unanimously re-elected by the
General Assembly and will continue
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Highlights of his tenure include:
“I grew up in war…and
saw the united nations
help my country recover
and rebuild itself”
Promoting
sustainable
development
One of the Secretary-General’s
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Climate Change Summit, followed
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that have helped put the issue at
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world’s main anti-poverty targets,
the
Millennium
Development
Goals, have generated more than
$60 billion USD in pledges, with a
special emphasis on Africa and the
new Global Strategy on Women
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of the food, energy, and economic
crises in 2008, the Secretary-
General successfully appealed
to the G20 for a $1 trillion USD
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countries and took other steps to
guide the international response
and protect the vulnerable and
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Empowering women
The Secretary-General pressed
successfully for the creation of UN
Women, a major new agency that
consolidates the UN’s work in this
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included the “Unite to End Violence
against Women” campaign, the
“Stop Rape Now” initiative, the