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UN food agency heads call for hunger eradication by 2025
Food security to be at center of Africa development agenda June 2013, Yokohama, Japan – The three heads of the Rome-based United Nations agencies today called for food security and nutrition to be...
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Celebrate World Environment Day – June 5
World Environment Day is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. World Environment Day activities take place all...
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“The Action Agenda for Sustainable Development”
“The Action Agenda for Sustainable Development” Under the leadership of Jeffrey Sachs (Director of the SDSN and head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, which hosts the secretariat of the...
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Resolute leadership to end malnutrition of mothers and children
June 2013 – With 165 million children around the world who are stunted as a result of undernutrition, the United Nations children’s agency has reiterated its calls to invest in the first 1,000 days of...
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Statement by Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Director of Emergencies
UNICEF correspondent Chris Niles reports on UNICEF’s response to the worsening situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. Statement by Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Director of Emergencies, at the launch of new UN...
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Lorre White reports, ‘Dubai ruler sets up Emirates Excellence Council’
Emirati Prime Minister and Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktoum. (AFP/Getty Images) Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and vice president and prime minister of the UAE,...
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#AskUNWomen and chat Live – 20 June 2013, 10:30am EDT
What is UN Women’s vision to ensure that empowering women becomes a priority in the post-2015 development agenda? Why is it important to include a separate gender goal in any future framework?...
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Celebrating Refugee Women who create ‘Hope’ in Syria
Syria UNRWA marks this year’s World Refugee Day by bringing attention to the stories of refugees in its five fields of operation. The following story sheds light on the vulnerability of Palestine...
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Global and regional estimates of ‘violence against women’
WHO report highlights violence against women as a ‘global health problem of epidemic proportions’ JUNE 2013 | GENEVA – Physical or sexual violence is a public health problem that affects more than one...
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UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Recounts 5-year-Old Girl’s Ordeal
SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS TEXT URGING TARGETED SANCTIONS AGAINST PERPETRATORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE DURING ARMED CONFLICT Rape Largely ‘Cost-free’, Says Special Representative As UNHCR Special Envoy...
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Saudi Crown Prince Nayef honoured for work with UN agency on Palestinian...
The late Crown Prince will be remembered for his commitment to humanitarian and relief work all over the world. 28 June 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN-Habitat, the agency charged with...
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Celebrating World Pulse Members Awards and Recognition 2013
World Pulse Members Powerful Awards and Recognition It is cause for celebration when grassroots women leaders—whose contributions to our families, neighborhoods, and our planet often go...
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Trafficking of children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo
Special Rapporteur Joy Ngozi Ezeilo. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré July 2013 – Trafficking of children and the issue of defining trafficking topped the agenda today at a first of its kind meeting between...
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Counting 9.6 billion humans on earth by 2050
The current world population of 7.2 billion is projected to increase by 1 billion over the next 12 years and reach 9.6 billion by 2050, according to a report launched by DESA’s Population division in...
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Transparency International,The Global Corruption Barometer 2013
GLOBAL CORRUPTION The Global Corruption Barometer 2013 draws on a survey of more than 114,000 respondents in 107 countries. It addresses people’s direct experiences with bribery and details their...
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Education urgently needed for 28.5 million school age children
Urgent action is needed to bring education to the 28.5 million primary school age children out of school in the world’s conflict zones. UNESCO’s Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report 2011...
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Children and Armed Conflict – Syria
“We cannot allow the next generation of Syrians to be illiterate.” July 2013 – Children will continue to suffer the consequences of the ongoing conflict in Syria unless an urgent political solution is...
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Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), a new standard
A new statistical standard to measure sustainable development The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), an international standard on statistics, was recently agreed among UN Member...
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VDAY ‘Takes Action’ on Syria!
V-Day Statement Against Possible U.S. Military Intervention in Syria The situation in Syria is dire with 100,000 dead, over 2 million having fled the country (half of them children), and 4.25 million...
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International Day of Charity, celebrated Sept. 5
UN marks first annual International Day of Charity #CharityDay Charity contributes to the promotion of dialogue, solidarity and mutual understanding among people. Poverty persists in all countries...
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