How New York City Is Embarking on a Local Journey to Meet the UN's New ...
To call New York City a microcosm of the world is no exaggeration: The city is home to an estimated 800 languages, diplomatic missions from 193 nations, and people from every corner of the earth. Right...
View ArticleUN and Mars, Incorporated Sign New Food Safety Agreement: “Collaboration is...
(Source: Mars Incorporated) 'If it's not safe, it's not food,' said Mars, Incorporated Vice President of Corporate Research & Development Dave Crean this week, upon signing a new partnership...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: Gains in Health, Education, but poverty increases
Africa’s strong economic growth has contributed to improving people’s health and education in the past 20 years as well as major reductions in poverty in several countries, but a rapid rise in...
View ArticleGrim Picture Of Destruction Caused By Myanmar Floods: Huge Livestock And...
(Source: WFP - World Food Programme) YANGON - Recent flooding in Myanmar had a devastating impact on agricultural livelihoods and food security, according to a joint Government-United Nations report...
View ArticleRemarks by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of the South...
(Source: The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa) 19 October 2015 Her Royal Highness, Princess Sofia Bernadotie Your Excellency, Ms Åsa Romson, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden...
View ArticleAfrica Security Speech (HMT - UK Her Majesty's Treasury)
(Source: HMT - UK Her Majesty's Treasury) Her Excellency Dr Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, likes to cite an astonishing fact: By 2025, a quarter of the world's young people will be...
View ArticleUS cuts millions in Mexico cartel-fighting aid amid human rights concerns
Experts say 15% reduction in funding amounts to symbolic slap on the wrist as widespread evidence suggests police and army abuses...
View ArticleModern Slavery and Measuring the SDGs
In September 2015, world leaders gathered in New York to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (or 'SDGs'). Like their predecessors the Millennium Development Goals, the SDGs chart a course for...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: Salone Needs A Third Force Now!
It is often very clear that when governance is anything but good, the media becomes quite vibrant, that is of course if it is given the right temperature to operate in. It is the same way with civil...
View ArticleThe Greater Boston Food Bank Launches Fifth Annual Holiday Meal Drive...
BOSTON, Oct. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Greater Boston Food Bank, the largest hunger-relief organization in New England, today kicked off its fifth annual Holiday Meal Drive. Through the...
View ArticleFeeding needy patients is his biggest duty
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For Joykutty, a senior office assistant at Mar Baselious College here, providing succour to the poor patients is the biggest duty and a satisfying one at that. It’s been more than...
View ArticlePresident calls for development of climate resilient agricultural industry...
(Source: Ministry of Agriculture of Guyana) President David Granger, today, reaffirmed Guyana's commitment to ensuring greater food security as one of the means of eliminating extreme poverty and...
View ArticleMcGovern Praises Community Voices Campaign to Highlight Real Families Helped...
(Source: James McGovern) WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today on the House Floor, Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02), a senior House Democrat and leading champion of anti-hunger efforts, spoke about Community...
View ArticleRohingya deaths higher than UN figures: Amnesty
Human rights group Amnesty International (AI) says the actual number of deaths among Rohingya Muslims attempting to flee persecution in Myanmar is much higher than estimates released by the United...
View ArticleIt is possible to reduce all forms of malnutrition by 2030, says report...
(Source: University of Pretoria) Back It is possible to reduce all forms of malnutrition by 2030, says report 19 October 2015 Lawrence Haddad had the rare opportunity to share a global nutrition...
View ArticleTranslation of the transcript of President Ghani's speech on ANSDF and...
(Source: Office of the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful Respected Minister of Interior, officers, students of army, police, and...
View ArticleSlovenia deploys troops to border as migrant exodus swells
BREZICE, Slovenia — Led by riot police on horseback, thousands of weary migrants marched across western Balkans borderlands as far as the eye could see Tuesday as authorities cautiously lowered...
View ArticleGovt Budgets GH¢1.3bn For Social Protection
Government plans to spend GH¢1.3 billion on social protection programmes this year. Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Mrs Mona Quartey, announced this in a solidarity message during the...
View ArticleEuropean Aid Offer for Libya Seeks `Immediate Peace Dividend'
The formation of a Libyan national unity government would trigger immediate European Union aid of as much as 72 million euros ($82 million) for the country, according to an EU document. The assistance...
View ArticleDrought relief grant underspent by 98% while people on brink of starvation...
(Source: DA - Democratic Alliance) A written reply to a DA parliamentary question has revealed that only R8 million of a R352 million drought relief grant issued by the Department of Water and...
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