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Can the world meet its hunger reduction target?

One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry: UN State of Food Insecurity Report Asia houses 526 million of the 805 million chronically undernourished people in the w...

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Hollywood

Emma Watson To Co-Host UN Women HeForShe Campaign Event

British Actor and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson will co-host a special event for UN Women’s HeForShe campaign on 20 September 2014, at the United Nations H...

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Sustainable Development

Go low-carbon for the money, says high-profile report

Is it too good to be true? Top economists this week lay out an audacious argument for transforming the world’s economy into a low-carbon one. Even if you forget clima...

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Hollywood

Leonardo DiCaprio Named As United Nations Messenger Of Peace

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated Academy Award-nominated actor and committed environmental activist, Leonardo DiCaprio, as a UN Messenger of Peac...

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Sustainable Development

The human cost of sex trafficking

In the sex trade, the demand for young girls is high due to a belief that sex with children holds less risk of HIV infection, and, in fact, can cure the disease As the cust...

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Sustainable Development

The sanitation challenge

The U.N. set the Millennium Development Goals or the MDG between 2000 and 2015. Goals 4 and 7 was to halve the number of people without access to improved water or sanitati...

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Sustainable Development

Poverty Makes Minority Kids More Vulnerable To Abuse

Children belonging to minority communities face increased risk of maltreatment due to exposure to poverty, says a U.S.-based study.
Poverty – rather than biased ...

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Environment

India's double challenge

While climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, traditional system of flood management through lakes and connected water channels has been forgo...

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Sustainable Development

India has potential to become knowledge-based economy, says Asian Development Bank

India has the potential to become a leading knowledge-based economy with its youth population and growing information technology though it should overcome some barriers in ...

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Environment

J&K floods a grim reminder of increasing climate change impact in India: Centre for Science and Environment

As Jammu and Kashmir continues to reel under its worst floods in 60 years, which have stranded over 6 lakh people and killed about 200, the attention is slowly veering towa...

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