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Lorre White, Road to Riches: Tracking the Journey of Global Superwealthy
Road to Riches: Tracking the Journey of the Global Superwealthy How Rich is Rich? While nearly 1 in 2 people on this planet have a net worth of less than $10,000, a select few are worth more than a...
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29 May is the, International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Peacekeepers Day 2013 On 29 May, UN offices, alongside Member States and non-governmental organizations, hold solemn events to honour fallen peacekeepers. Since the first UN peacekeeping mission was...
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Violence against Indigenous Girls, Breaking the Silence!
UN report calls for urgent action Breaking the Silence on Violence against Indigenous Girls 28 May 2013 – Violence against women and girls is a pervasive human rights violation that persists in every...
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UN food agency heads call for hunger eradication by 2025
Food security to be at center of Africa development agenda June 2013, Yokohama, Japan – The three heads of the Rome-based United Nations agencies today called for food security and nutrition to be...
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Celebrate World Environment Day – June 5
World Environment Day is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. World Environment Day activities take place all...
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“The Action Agenda for Sustainable Development”
“The Action Agenda for Sustainable Development” Under the leadership of Jeffrey Sachs (Director of the SDSN and head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, which hosts the secretariat of the...
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Resolute leadership to end malnutrition of mothers and children
June 2013 – With 165 million children around the world who are stunted as a result of undernutrition, the United Nations children’s agency has reiterated its calls to invest in the first 1,000 days of...
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#AskUNWomen and chat Live – 20 June 2013, 10:30am EDT
What is UN Women’s vision to ensure that empowering women becomes a priority in the post-2015 development agenda? Why is it important to include a separate gender goal in any future framework?...
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Global and regional estimates of ‘violence against women’
WHO report highlights violence against women as a ‘global health problem of epidemic proportions’ JUNE 2013 | GENEVA – Physical or sexual violence is a public health problem that affects more than one...
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UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Recounts 5-year-Old Girl’s Ordeal
SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS TEXT URGING TARGETED SANCTIONS AGAINST PERPETRATORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE DURING ARMED CONFLICT Rape Largely ‘Cost-free’, Says Special Representative As UNHCR Special Envoy...
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Celebrating World Pulse Members Awards and Recognition 2013
World Pulse Members Powerful Awards and Recognition It is cause for celebration when grassroots women leaders—whose contributions to our families, neighborhoods, and our planet often go...
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Trafficking of children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo
Special Rapporteur Joy Ngozi Ezeilo. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré July 2013 – Trafficking of children and the issue of defining trafficking topped the agenda today at a first of its kind meeting between...
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Counting 9.6 billion humans on earth by 2050
The current world population of 7.2 billion is projected to increase by 1 billion over the next 12 years and reach 9.6 billion by 2050, according to a report launched by DESA’s Population division in...
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Transparency International,The Global Corruption Barometer 2013
GLOBAL CORRUPTION The Global Corruption Barometer 2013 draws on a survey of more than 114,000 respondents in 107 countries. It addresses people’s direct experiences with bribery and details their...
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Live streaming of child sex abuse an ‘emerging threat’ in 2013
The Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography to the Convention on the Rights of the Child states that child prostitution is the practice whereby a child...
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Education urgently needed for 28.5 million school age children
Urgent action is needed to bring education to the 28.5 million primary school age children out of school in the world’s conflict zones. UNESCO’s Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report 2011...
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Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), a new standard
A new statistical standard to measure sustainable development The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), an international standard on statistics, was recently agreed among UN Member...
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MOSCOW 2013 – WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS in ATHLETICS
WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS Venue: Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Date: 10-18 August Coverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC Radio 5 live, BBC Sport website, mobiles, tablets and Connected TVs The world’s greatest...
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Celebrating UKRAINE’S 22nd year of Independence!
Independence Day of Ukraine (Ukrainian: День незалежності України) is the main state holiday in modern Ukraine,[nb 1] celebrated on August 24 in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence of...
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VDAY ‘Takes Action’ on Syria!
V-Day Statement Against Possible U.S. Military Intervention in Syria The situation in Syria is dire with 100,000 dead, over 2 million having fled the country (half of them children), and 4.25 million...
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