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NewsFirst UN-chartered ship brings Ukraine wheat to Ethiopia; UN chief to visit Ukraine
Rome/New York, August 16 – A ship chartered by the World Food Program (WFP) is bringing the first humanitarian cargo of 23,000 metric tons of ...
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NewsNorwegian Refugee Council awarded world’s largest humanitarian prize
Oslo/New York, August 9 – The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has won the 2022 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, which is worth $2.5 million, for ...
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NewsUN Correspondents Association honors winners of best coverage of UN activities
SEE ANNOUNCEMENT: 2022 UN CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION AWARDS FOR BEST JOURNALISTIC COVERAGE OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND UN AGENCIES – WINNERS WILL BE HONORED BY THE ...
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WeaponsUPDATE: Nuclear signatories urged to strengthen treaty, eliminate nuclear weapons
New York, August 1 – The 191 signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) started a month-long review of efforts to prevent the spread of ...
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EconomyUPDATE: UN sets up coordination center in Istanbul to speed up Ukraine’s wheat exports
Istanbul/New York, July 27 – A Joint Coordination Center (JCC) comprising representatives of the United Nations, Ukraine, Russia and Türkiye
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NewsWorld population to reach 8 billion in November; India to become world’s most populous country
New York, July 11 – Despite a deep drop in fertility rates to below 1 per cent in 2020 and after a period of slowest ...
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NewsUN: Development progress halted or reversed under pandemic, conflicts
New York, July 7 – The COVID-19 pandemic, which entered a third year in 2022, and destructions caused by climate change and conflicts have halted ...
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NewsUN report: Global Hunger Numbers Rose To As Many As 828 Million In 2021
The latest State of Food Security and Nutrition report shows the world is moving backwards in efforts to eliminate hunger and malnutrition. Following is a ...
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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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