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UN’s global emergency response fund allocates additional $12 million to urgently help refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar
Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock, on October 3, released an additional US$12 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to urgently help the most vulnerable people fleeing violence in Myanmar and their host communities in Bangladesh, where the refugees are seeking refuge.
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Japan Boosts WFP Food And Nutrition Programmes In Cholera-Ridden Yemen
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$1 million contribution from the Government of Japan to provide much-needed food and nutrition assistance in Yemen over the coming months on Oct 04. With these funds, WFP will be able to assist more than 130,000 people, including some 47,000 nursing mothers and pregnant women in areas hardest hit by cholera.
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One year after Hurricane Matthew, Haiti’s children still vulnerable to natural disasters
A child stands for a photograph near the destroyed École Mixtes Pierre Louis Marie in Dame-Marie, Haiti.
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Sustainable cities key to implement SDGs, says head of UN regional forum
Aerial view of Lima, the capital of Peru.
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Better Infrastructure, Jobs, Services in Cities Urgently Needed in East Asia Pacific: World Bank Report
Cities across East Asia and the Pacific – the world’s most rapidly urbanizing region – are not delivering infrastructure, jobs, and services at a pace as rapid as urban development, leading to widening inequalities that may hamper economic growth and lead to social divisions, says a new World Bank report called Expanding Opportunities for the Urban Poor.
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Who Was the Las Vegas Shooter ?
Las Vegas police have identified Stephen Paddock, 64, from Mesquite, Nevada, as the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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Nigerian Educator honoured at 2017 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award ceremony
The UN Refugee Agency, on October 2, UNHCR today honoured Zannah Mustapha with the 2017 Nansen Refugee Award at a ceremony in Geneva for founding a school in Maiduguri, Nigeria, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency.
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WFP Cuts Food Rations For Refugees In Kenya Amidst Funding Shortfalls
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will cut food rations by 30 percent for the 420,000 refugees in living in Dadaab and Kakuma camps in northern Kenya due to insufficient funding.
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UNICEF appeals for US$76.1 million to assist children affected by the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh
UNICEF is launching a US$76.1 million appeal for its emergency humanitarian response to the Rohingya refugee crisis in southern Bangladesh.
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'Nothing enduring can be built on violence,' UN Assembly President says, recalling words of Gandhi
The “Non-Violence” (or “Knotted Gun”) sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on display at the UN Visitors’ Plaza.
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020