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On what may be the biggest day of climate change activism ever seen worldwide, tens of thousands of people marched as far afield as Sydney and Madrid on Sunday to send a message to leaders ...
Over 500,000 people, including more than 140,000 children, were homeless in the United States in 2015 due to few affordable housing and a sluggish economic recovery across much of the country, according to a new ...
2015 Theme: Science for a Sustainable Future; celebrating the UNESCO Science report Science will be essential to reach many of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and, thus, to ensure a sustainable ...
International football icon and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham met children receiving treatment for malnutrition at a UNICEF-supported hospital in Papua New Guinea. “I feel very proud to be in ...
Calling for a joint vaccination operational plan in Sudan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today outlined the dire situation for thousands of children living in the Nuba Mountains, which remain inaccessible after four years ...
Colombia’president and Farc’s top rebel commander have shaken hands signaling a breakthrough in nearly three years of peace talks. President Juan Manuel Santos and Rodrigo Londono better known as ‘Timochenko’ reached a justice deal which ...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) achieved significant progress over the past 15 years, but persistent gaps in official development assistance and insufficient access to markets, affordable medicines and new technologies have highlighted the need for ...
What happens when your brother runs away with a married woman from a higher social caste? In the case of the Baghpat district in northern India’s Uttar Pradeshin state, village elders will probably order the ...
The head of the European Parliament has launched a scathing attack on some European countries he accuses of failing to take in refugees. Martin Schulz says amid the European blame game the Mediterranean Sea is ...
For the fifth International Day against Nuclear Tests, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed voluntary moratoria on testing imposed by nuclear-armed states but stressed that these cannot substitute for a legally-binding treaty. “The Comprehensive ...
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