Month: April 2018
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Global anxiety deepens over online data and privacy protection – UN agency
Internet users worldwide are becoming more worried about their privacy online and many question the protections offered by Internet and…
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Short-sighted investment endangers development progress for hundreds of millions of people – UN report
While a moderate upturn in the world economy led to more development financing in 2017, a new United Nations report out…
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Following airstrikes, UN chief warns against escalation over Syria
The United Nations Secretary-General has called on the international community to avoid actions which could escalate the crisis in Syria and deepen the…
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Conditions ‘not yet conducive’ for Rohingya refugee to return home to Myanmar – UN agency
The United Nations refugee agency and the Government of Bangladesh on Friday signed a cooperation agreement on the safe, dignified…
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UNIDO Allocates Low Interest Loan to Energy Efficiency Projects
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has established a revolving Fund for allocating low interest loan to Industrial Energy…
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No one in Myanmar should be left behind on the path to a better future, stresses UN official
“Regardless of their ethnicity, religion and citizenship status, we need to […] ensure that no vulnerable conflict-affected people are deprived of safe…
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UN population forum urged to examine ways to protect people on the move, make cities work better
A great migration of humanity into cities is under way, and with millions drawn to urban areas for the promise…
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Today’s wars on children devastate the sacred principle of protection
By Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. A few milestones in March 2018…
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Universal health coverage key to safer, fairer world, says WHO chief on eve of World Health Day
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday marked World Health Day, and the agency’s 70th anniversary, with a…
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On Rwandan genocide anniversary, UN leaders ask: Can world muster the will to prevent new atrocities?
As the world officially remembers the genocidal murder of 800,000 Rwandans in 1994, United Nations leaders warn that ethnic cleansing…
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