“All over the world, an alarming number of adolescent girls are assaulted, beaten, raped, mutilated and even murdered,” Ban said.

Jolie is a special envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and co-founded the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative in 2012.

“The challenge now is to actually implement an agreement that Russia has signed on to,” U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser said.

An incomplete halo will be set above the columns, signifying both the fracture left by the Genocide and the unity of the Armenian people.

This year’s lecture addresses the critical importance of freedom of the press in upholding human rights across the world.

More than 30 people died after demonstrations turned violent, and Turkish troops and tanks were deployed to restore order.

After the vote, Samaras insisted that the next parliamentary election would be held when the government's mandate expires in 2016.

"We will pursue the needed reforms, to boost our medium term growth prospects," Finance Minister Michel Sapin said in a statement.

"If this falls, the 700, plus perhaps the 12,000 people, apart from the fighters, will be most likely massacred," de Mistura said.