Month: January 2017
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At Youth Forum, UN calls on young people to help realize a better future for all
Drawing attention challenges such as climate change, unemployment and inequality, confronting young people around the world, including in places where…
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UNICEF launches $3.3 billion global appeal to assist millions of children
Against the backdrop of ever increasing number of children driven from their homes due to conflict, disasters and climate change,…
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UNESCO kicks off 3-day training workshop for museum managers
On 29 January, UNESCO kicked off a three-day capacity building workshop on the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting…
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UNESCO attends 17th WFTGA Convention in Tehran
The 17th Convention of the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (WFTGA) is taking place in Tehran from 28 January…
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Amid hate speech, negative media spin ‘real stories’ of refugees and migrants must be told – UN official
With hate speech and rhetoric against migrants and refugees on the rise in various parts of the world, and the…
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Like clockwork: Creating transformational action for the climate
By Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Head of Climate Change Adaptation, Global Environmental Finance Unit, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP Have…
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Global Goals on poverty and hunger require $265 billion annually – UN conference told
The world must take urgent action to mobilize the estimated $265 billion a year needed to achieve the first two…
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With 2.2 million Afghans feared to be on the move, UN agency to begin tracking displacements, aid relief
Amid concerns of a severe humanitarian crisis induced by sudden return home of hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees and…
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UNESCO consultative expert meeting on ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities
Tehran – On 24 January 2017, UNESCO embarked on a two-day consultative expert meeting on the development of a national…
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Promotion of peace, culture of peace, moral and intellectual solidarity
Tehran – Some 45 professors, intellectuals, researchers, students and civil society activists from the NGO “Ambassadors of Peace and Friendship…
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