Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) walks past a republican guard on his way for receiving Secretary general of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon (not pictured) in Algiers City 18 December 2007. Ki-Moon is on an official one-day visit to Algeria.
Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni, center, welcomes World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, left, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, to the State House in Entebbe, Uganda Friday, May 24, 2013. Ban told a news conference in Uganda Friday that he expects regional leaders to find solutions as eastern Congo once again moves into another phase of hostilities sparked partly by the U.N.'s deployment of new peacekeepers authorized to attack rebels.
A mural with Arabic that reads "no harassment," is seen on a wall in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 24, 2013. Besides the daily experience of harassment on the streets of Egypt, sexual assaults at anti-government protests, where women have been groped, stripped and even raped, have risen both in number and intensity during the past year of continued unrest in Egypt. The United Nations said it had reports of 25 sexual assaults on women at political rallies at Tahrir Square, the center of the uprising, in one week early this year. Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, which patrolled the square, reported 19 incidents alone on Jan. 25 the second anniversary of the start of the uprising including a case of a teenager raped with a bladed instrument.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria, signs a guest book before meeting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon during the United Nations Climate Change Summit September 22, 2009 at UN headquarters in New York.
Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, signs the guestbook in Villa Eikenhorst, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, on May 23, 2013.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander (L) meets Jan Eliasson Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations in Villa Eikenhorst, Wassenaar, The Netherlands,on May 23, 2013.
