With new blueprint in hand, Ban calls for action to chart more sustainable future Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the launch of report by his High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability. UN Photo/ Eskinder Debebe 30 January 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for action on a new blueprint for creating a […]

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UN and Intel unveil initiative on technology-based training for midwives A midwife attending to an expectant mother in a health centre in northern Uganda. Photo: IRIN/Charles Akena  30 January 2012 The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the computing company Intel today unveiled a joint effort to strengthen the skills of midwives and community health […]

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UN experts begin assessment of effects of Fukushima nuclear accident Destroyed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Photo: UNSCEAR/ Wolfgang Weiss 30 January 2012 Sixty international experts assessing the radiation exposures and health effects resulting from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan last March kicked off a week-long meeting today in […]

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Child refugees from Libyan crisis in Norway for UN resettlement process Displaced children from Ajdabiya play in the grounds of a converted construction camp in Benghazi, Libya. Photo: OCHA A group of 33 unaccompanied children who spent months in a refugee camp in Tunisia after fleeing last year’s turmoil in Libya have arrived in Norway […]

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UN agency seeks $300 million to assist Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza The United Nations today launched an emergency appeal for just over $300 million to assist Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank who are still dealing with the effects of the conflict that ended three years ago as well […]

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UN envoy arrives to help Afghanistan through new period of development The new United Nations envoy to Afghanistan arrived in the capital, Kabul, today to take the helm of the world body’s presence there and assist the country amid a period of transition. Ján Kubiš, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, will lead the UN […]

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UNRWA launches 300 million appeal for Gaza and the West Bank Says three years after the Gaza war humanitarian need “acute and widespread” Three years after the end of the Gaza war, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, has launched an emergency appeal for Gaza and the West Bank worth just over 300 […]

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UNHCR helps resettle 33 unaccompanied children from Tunisia to Norway A young boy plays in a special tent run by UNHCR and Save the Children for children, including unaccompanied minors, at Choucha transit camp. CHOUCHA CAMP, Tunisia, January 17 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has helped resettle a group of 33 unaccompanied children who had spent months […]

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Ertharin Cousin of United States appointed as head of UN World Food Programme Ambassador Ertharin Cousin at the November 2011 meeting of WFP’s Executive Board in Rome./(Copyright: WFP/Giulio D’Adamo) The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed the appointment of Ertharin Cousin of the United States as the new head of the Rome-based agency. Ms. Cousin […]

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New mindset needed to tackle non-communicable diseases, says UN official Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization. UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras Countries need to change their current mindset to successfully tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, adding that governments will need to explore new approaches […]

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