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‘We won’t get to zero cases of Ebola without a big scale-up in funding,’ UN relief chief warns
Speaking in Geneva, Mr. Lowcock, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, insisted on the need to “be honest with ourselves” on tackling the haemorrhagic disease …unless there’s...
‘No hope’ global development goals can be achieved without women, says UN Assembly President
“This is an obvious point to make, but it is, sadly, one that we cannot repeat enough”, she said, opening...
Global response to poverty and environmental goals ‘not ambitious enough’
In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN...
Now is the time to seize ‘unprecedented opportunity’ of the Sustainable Development Forum, says ECOSOC President
Mr. Rybakov made the case that “antidiscrimination legislature remains an important tool” to help even up gender equality while pointing...
Groundbreaking cancer-fighting drugs now included in updated UN list of essential medicines
More than 150 countries use the UN’s Essential Medicines List, which contains around 460 drugs deemed critical to treat public...
Developing countries should not be liable for emissions ‘accumulated throughout history’, key UN development forum hears
“As a representative of aviation industry, we believe that it is very important to advance the ‘climate action’ of...
Friday’s Daily Brief: UN chief meets cyclone survivors in Mozambique, Human Rights Council investigates Philippines state violence, UN weather agency tracks Arctic fires
UN chief meets survivors of devastating cyclones Meeting schoolchildren in Mozambique’s second city of Beira on Friday, UN Secretary-General António...
Angry Birds 2 PSA in support of the ActNow Climate Campaign
The Department of Global Communications is partnering with Sony Pictures Entertainment and the UN Foundation for a second time on...
Mass measles vaccination campaign begins in Ebola-hit DR Congo province
UN Children’s Fund UNICEF said on Thursday that it aims to inoculate 67,000 children in Ituri province. The combined threat of Ebola...
New UN poverty report reveals ‘vast inequalities’ between countries
The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), shows that, in the 101 countries studied...
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