Month: October 2017

UN emergency response fund reaches annual goal of $450 million, but more needed

The United Nations global emergency response fund has reached its 2017 funding target of $450 million, but much more is…

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Global unemployment passes 200 million in 2017, UN labour agency reports

More than 200 million people are out of work around the world – an increase of 3.4 million since last…

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UN seeks more funds to assist Rohingya amid world’s fastest growing refugee crisis

United Nations agencies are seeking more funds to cope with the mass exodus of people fleeing violence in Myanmar into…

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UN study tackles violence against women in Arab region using economic model

An economic model to estimate the costs of intimate partner violence – the most common form of violence against women…

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UN agriculture agency and World Bank launch new initiative to avert famine in Yemen

More than half a million vulnerable and food-insecure people in war-torn Yemen will receive immediate relief and long-term sustainable agricultural…

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UNESCO holds three-day International Expert Meeting in Yazd

The UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office and the International Centre on Qanats and Historic Hydraulic Structures (ICQHS) kicked off a three-day…

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Regional conflicts hinders achieving SDGs – Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN

Wars in the Middle East prevent achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs), said Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations…

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Affordable housing key for development and social equality, UN says on World Habitat Day

With 1.6 billion people living in inadequate housing, one billion of whom reside in slums and informal settlements, the United…

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