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"From trade to food to climate regulation, the oceans are integral to all of humanity. This is particularly so for coastal dwellers whose income and culture are irrevocably bound to the sea. If we are to fully benefit from the oceans, we must reverse the degradation of the marine environment due...
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Six million tobacco users die every year warns a new report issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) releasing its report on Friday May 31st - UN World No-Tobacco Day.
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May 2013- UN AIDS has released a special report entitled Update, revealing to the world just "How Africa turned AIDS around", by providing some groundbreaking figures on AIDS intervention like the more than 7 million people who are now on HIV treatment across the continent, with nearly 1 million...
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"Intensive efforts to achieve the MDGs have clearly improved health for people all over the world," said Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO).
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Pointing to various social and economic difficulties of the times like youth unemployment, lack of affordable childcare, inadequate pensions or proper care for older persons and how such issues impose numerous burdens on families, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the world's...
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Good news for the green sector comes in from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), who said on Wednesday that the international market for low-carbon and environmentally friendly goods and services is rapidly expanding and will 'almost triple to $2.2 million by 2020' thus creating new...
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144 journalists, media assistants and netizens died as the result of violence against the media in an effort to curb freedom of expression in 2012. On this year’s World Press Freedom Day ? celebrated annually on May 3rd ? the United Nations focuses on the violence against media workers and the...
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The United Nations Security Council is about as august as an international institution can get. The strongest and most essential piece of the UN, the Security Council is the only organ whose resolutions are considered legally binding, and the only one with the power to authorize military action or...
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The amount of annual deaths by Malaria have fallen dramatically in the last decade, and 50 of the 99 countries with an ongoing Malaria issue are well on their way to meet the 2015 World Health Assembly goals of a 75% reduction in Malaria-related deaths. Reason for newly appointed Special Envoy for...
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reacted on Monday morning to new evidence that chemical weapons have been used by one side or the other in the Syrian civil war. Such an act, which would violate international law and cross a so called “red line” that could draw other countries into the...