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The distribution of Emergency food voucher s for 10,000 people is underway in eastern Ukraine. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) distributed food vouchers to people in Donetsk who were displaced by ongoing fighting in the region. Pro-Russian separatist rebels control much of the eastern part of the country. The ceasefire agreement they signed with [...]

Women are the primary agents of change in combating malnutrition, according to a member of the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous People. Munkh-bolor Gungaa was speaking on behalf of civil society at the closing ceremony of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2). The three-day conference was organized by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization [...]

The private sector has the tools and expertise to impact food safety and therefore food security solutions. This is according to the Global Vice-President of Mars Incorporated, the company that produces many of the world's best known chocolate bars. He was speaking at the UN Food and Agriculture headquarters at the closing of the Second [...]

• Malnutrition should be a problem of the past according to the coordinator of the Uganda Civil Society Coalition on Scaling Up Nutrition. People with the condition either do not get enough food or the right sort of food. In Uganda, 33 per cent of children under five are stunted, which means they are drastically [...]

Women's rights are missing from food and nutrition policies, according to the Secretary-General of the International Human Rights Organization for the Right to Food.  Flavio Valente is currently acting as liaison for civil society organizations at the Second International Conference on Nutrition in Rome, Italy. The conference is expected to endorse a political outcome document, [...]

People around the world are being given an opportunity to promote children's rights by making videos of their own version of John Lennon's iconic song Imagine. Using the hash tags #Imagine and #EveryVoiceCounts, millions including celebrities, will be able to participate in a worldwide sing-along to highlight the challenges children face around the world. Developed [...]

The past fifteen years have seen an unprecedented growth in the scale, scope and importance of United Nations Police according to the UN's head of peacekeeping operations. Briefing the Security Council on Thursday, Hervé Ladsous said that the role of UN police was adapting to what he described as rapidly evolving operational environments. Vannina Maestracci [...]

Financial pledges of more than US$9.3 billion made by Governments towards a fund to help developing countries cope with climate change has been welcomed by the UN Secretary-General. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) will support developing countries to limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the impacts of changing climatic conditions. [...]

Food, nutrition and the environment are global public issues, according to the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis. The Pope was attending the Second International Conference on Nutrition in Rome, Italy, to give an address to more than 170 government representatives. He urged solidarity and concrete action to combat the global nutrition challenge. The [...]

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The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has said he is seriously concerned about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK's nuclear programme. DPRK said it first tested nuclear weapons in 2006. Since then the international community has been working with the country to regulate its programme. Yukiya Amano, the Director General of the International [...]

Most people in Papua New Guinea grow their own food and are able to feed themselves, but lack proper methods of preservation, a UN Food Agency (FAO) official has said. The majority of the population in the south west Pacific island nation practices agriculture and fishing. Food easily goes to waste because there are no [...]

Most people in Papua New Guinea grow their own food and are able to feed themselves, but lack proper methods of preservation, a UN Food Agency (FAO) official has said. The majority of the population in the south west Pacific island nation practices agriculture and fishing. Food easily goes to waste because there are no [...]

The international community has been urged to continue supporting Somalia to build what's been described by a senior UN official as "sustainable security." The UN's political affairs chief, Jeffrey Feltman made the comment at the High-Level Partnership Forum for Somalia, which opened in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Wednesday. The Horn of Africa country has endured more [...]

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