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Wednesday’s Daily Brief: Ebola Public Health Emergency in DR Congo, young peacemakers, defining moment for Sudan, war crimes fugitives, migrant ‘crisis’ in Hungary
DR Congo Ebola outbreak now a Public Health Emergency, UN health agency declares The second worst Ebola outbreak of all...
Governments at UN forum on development urged to close spending gaps, honour aid commitments
Meeting for two panel discussions, respectively on the theme ‘Financing the SDGs: Moving from words to action’, and ‘Four years...
Inclusion, empowerment and equality, must be ‘at the heart of our efforts’ to ensure sustainable development, says UN chief
He stressed that the conclusions emerging from the Forum “are rooted in the pressing need to address the Inclusion Imperative...
Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Development forum focuses on inclusion; monsoons pummel Asia; young children at greater Ebola risk; small islands fight hunger, obesity; Yemen ceasefire for Red Sea port
Inclusion, equality resonate widely at key UN development forum At the opening of the Ministerial Segment of the UN High-Level...
‘Complacency’ a factor in stagnating global vaccination rates, warn UN health chiefs
According to a joint study by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 10 countries accounted for 11.7 of...
Baby foods high in sugar, inappropriately marketed in Europe, reveal two UN studies
The studies from WHO Europe show that a high proportion of baby foods are incorrectly marketed as suitable for infants...
Monday’s Daily Brief: numbers of hungry people rising, millions of children need vaccines, Mali children need more protection
Number of hungry people rising globally More people are going hungry around the world, a new UN report, the State...
‘We won’t get to zero cases of Ebola without a big scale-up in funding,’ UN relief chief warns
Speaking in Geneva, Mr. Lowcock, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, insisted on the need to “be honest with ourselves” on tackling the haemorrhagic disease …unless there’s...
‘No hope’ global development goals can be achieved without women, says UN Assembly President
“This is an obvious point to make, but it is, sadly, one that we cannot repeat enough”, she said, opening...
Global response to poverty and environmental goals ‘not ambitious enough’
In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN...
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