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Far-Reaching Changes Remake the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
An olive oil plant in Tebourba, Tunisia. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization statistics show that olive oil is the country's largest commodity. The industry employs many laborers and involves...
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Increased Private Financing to the UN Poses Benefits and Risks
Armenia lies in one of the most seismically active regions in the world, so the Armenia National Disaster Observatory was set up, with help from the UN Development Program, to collect, analyze and...
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America and the West Should Invest More in the UN, Not Less
The antimalaria campaign of the Pan American Health Organization, part of the UN's World Health Organization, at work in Paraguay.Institutions of global governance are weak by design not default. As...
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Unido: What Does Its Future Hold?
Li Yong, the new director-general of Unido as of June 28, 2013. He was a vice minister in China's finance ministry and replaced Kandeh Yumkella of Sierra Leone at the UN agency.At the end of 2012,...
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World Tourism Meeting Goes Ahead in Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe, re-elected president of Zimbabwe in July 2013. The UN's World Tourism Organization is holding its global meeting this year in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, despite allegations that the...
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The UN Development Program Should Revive What It Does Best
Helen Clark, the chief of the UN Development Program, in Bijagual, Costa Rica, visiting a community project in March 2013. ADRIANA ZUNIGA/UNDP COSTA RICAConstant reform has characterized the United...
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The US Could Soon Lose Its Voting Ability at Unesco
Monticello, the plantation home of US President Thomas Jefferson, in Charlottesville, Va. He designed the house and its grounds as well as the University of Virginia campus nearby; both are Unesco...
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The US, as Predicted, Loses a Valuable Vote at Unesco
As predicted by PassBlue, the United States has lost its voting rights in Unesco, since it stopped paying its dues almost exactly two years ago because of a Congressional ban on support for any UN...
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Missing: A UN Agency for the World’s Aging Population
Nguyen Thi Phuc joined a club in her province, Nghe An, sponsored by HelpAge International and the Vietnam Association of the Elderly to push herself to get more exercise and feel less depressed....
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Unraveling Sexual Violence in Costa Rica and Throughout Latin America
A memorial in Chile during a protest against femicide. The placards mean "Warning! Machismo Kills" in English.For the past three decades, Costa Rica has carried out progressive steps to reduce violence...
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The Divided Life of Cyprus
A United Nations tower in the buffer zone, near a playground situated at the edge of the Arabahmet, or Armenian quarter, on the Turkish Cypriot side of Cyprus. MARIA LUISA GAMBALEThe United Nations...
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The Creation and Trafficking of New Illegal Drugs Widens, a UN Report Finds
Use of synthetic drugs is becoming more prevalent and lethal, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says in a new report. Here, bath salts, a type of “designer” drug.Confirming recent findings...
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An Italian Priest and a US Health Group Win the 2014 UN Population Prize
Putting a new focus on maternal health and obstetric fistula in particular, which devastates the lives of women and girls in many poor countries, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has given...
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UN Aviation Agency Plays a Limited Role in Malaysia Crash Inquiry
A Dutch-led team of experts searching for body parts at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in eastern Ukraine, on Aug. 5, 2014. The search has been suspended because of the volatile...
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Islamists Systematically Destroying World Heritage Sites in Syria and Iraq
Beyond the horrific executions, the deadly assaults on Christian and Yazidi communities and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing towns to avoid their terror, fighters of the...
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Child Brides as Slave Labor: The UN Is Conflicted
Narmada, above, was able to avoid child marriage through the support of the Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation, a nonprofit group in India that works to abolish child labor and ensure education for...
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UN Peacekeeping Upgrades Its Reactions to Conflicts and Adds Surveillance Tools
Hervé Ladsous, the chief of the United Nations Peacekeeping Department, in his office in New York. There is a need now, he said, for peacekeepers to do more proactive protection of civilians, like...
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Caribbean Nations Preserve a Complicated Heritage
A view of Castillo San Felipe del Morro, a huge fort with fortifications overlooking San Juan Bay in Puerto Rico, built by Spain from 1539 to 1786 and said to be the best example of Spanish colonial...
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The Controversial Cambodian-Australian Refugee Deal Hits Snags
A $40 million deal struck last year in which Cambodia agreed with Australia to accept refugees who are being detained in the small Pacific island nation of Nauru has incensed the United Nations refugee...
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World Health Assembly Backs Calls to Strengthen Clean Air SDGs
The new development goals could more emphatically include reducing air pollution now that a UN agency has drawn concerted attention to pollution’s health risks. Smog levels in India, above, are among...
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