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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  ## Ban Ki-moon _Ban Ki-moon is former_ _Secretary General of the United Nations_ _and Deputy Chair of The Elders_  ## Ban Ki-moon Articles 5Collections 1 *  Jul 26, 2021 ### [Ban Ki-moon: Refugees Deserve More From Us](https://time.com/6083151/1951-refugee-convention-anniversary/) The former U.N. Secretary General calls on leaders to step up and deliver a global resettlement prog... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 4, 2020 ### [75 Years After Hiroshima, It's Time to Disarm Nuclear Weapons](https://time.com/5875424/ban-ki-moon-hiroshima-nagasaki-nuclear/) This should have been the year we made progress in giving up nuclear arms. It's not too late for the... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 10, 2019 ### [These 5 Big Changes Are Key for Humanity to Survive a Warming Climate](https://time.com/5672435/climate-change-adaptation/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 8, 2018 ### [The U.N.'s Climate Report Exposes How Badly Wrong Leaders Like Trump Have Got Climate Change](https://time.com/5416793/climate-change-ban-ki-moon-trump/) "President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement was politically sho... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 23, 2018 ### ['A Monumental Leader': U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Remembers His Predecessor Kofi Annan](https://time.com/5373311/ban-ki-moon-kofi-annan-obituary/) Kofi Annan passed away at the age of 80 on Aug. 18 [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/ban-ki-moon/","name":"Ban Ki-moon"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/ban-ki-moon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/ban-ki-moon/"},"name":"Ban Ki-moon","jobTitle":null,"description":"Ban Ki-moon is former Secretary General of the United Nations and Deputy Chair of The Elders","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt012d367661c380dc/698a1104457a520a17d64444/ban-ki-moon.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/ban-ki-moon/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```