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NewsUN adopts plan to cut road traffic deaths and injuries by 50 per cent
New York, June 30 – The UN General Assembly has adopted a political declaration committing member states to set up policies that will halve the ...
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NewsUN urges coordinated efforts to solve global food crisis at G7 summit
Schloss Elmau, Germany/New York, June 24 – Despite the Ukraine war, an effective solution to the current world’s food crisis requires the reintegration into world ...
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NewsPressure grows for G7’s action to avert global food crisis
New York, June 23 – The group of seven most industrialized countries in the world has been asked to take swift and decisive action to ...
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HealthWHO calls for transforming mental health care as Covid-19 drives up mental disorders
Geneva/New York, June 17 – The World Health Organization has called for urgently transforming the global mental health care as nearly 1 billion people were ...
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ConflictUkraine war exposes 1.6 billion people to high food and energy prices or finance tightening, new UN report says
New York, June 8 – Russia’s war in Ukraine has triggered a global crisis that is exposing 1.6 billion people in 94 countries to either ...
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HealthWHO: Climate change poses serious risks; nearly 1 billion people living with mental conditions
Geneva/New York, June 3 – The World Health Organization issued a policy brief warning that climate change is a serious risk to people’s mental health ...
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EnvironmentUN: Accelerate action to fight climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution
Stockholm/New York, June 2 – The United Nations has called for accelerating progress made in the past 50 years to protect planet earth’s environment as ...
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HealthNewsWHO raises alarm on tobacco industry environmental impact
Geneva, May 31 —The World Health Organization (WHO) has today revealed new information on the extent to which tobacco damages both the environment and human ...
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NewsUN human rights chief urges China to “review” its policies against the Uyghur people
Guangzhou/New York, May 28 – Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has called on the Chinese government to review its widely criticized ...
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ConflictNewsUN: Over 100 million people forced to flee conflict and persecution for the first time on record
Geneva/New York, May 23 – The United Nations refugee agency said a record number of over 100 million people have been forced to flee war, ...
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EconomyUN calls for “goodwill on all sides” of Ukraine war to resolve global food crisis
New York, May 18 – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he has been in “intense contact” with Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States and the ...
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EconomyFragile economic recovery from COVID-19 pandemic upended by war in Ukraine
Amid rising inflationary pressures, UN revises global growth estimates downwards for 2022 (Following is a news release from the UN) New York, 18 May – The war in ...
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