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Flagship human development report by United Nations Development Programme shows rapid growth in Asia's middle class.
Click on the water conflict map to see some of Al Jazeera's coverage of an issue which could define 21st century strife The author Mark Twain once rem...
SHARE THIS VIDEO - KONY 2012/Invisible Children is Pro-Museveni and supports UGANDAN Government Military Army and they had child soldiers before. Museveni's ...
TED Talks For five years, young Emmanuel Jal fought as a child soldier in the Sudan. Rescued by an aid worker, he's become an international hip-hop star and an activist for kids in war zones.
The 2012 UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) took place on 5 and 6 July at the UN headquarters in New York. It...
TED Talks You've never seen data presented like this.
Rio+20, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 20-22, 2012.
ISTANBUL (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon called Friday for urgent international aid for Somalia to head off the risk of warlords exploiting a power vacuum after the scheduled change of power in August.
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United Nations, New York, May 2012 - The disease is carried by the source of life -- water -- but it can lead to death within hours. Cholera recently swept t...
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“The terrorists showed what frightens them most: a girl with a book.” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yusufzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl injured in an assassination attempt on her way home from school earlier this month.
Dambisa Moyo talks about Dead Aid on ABC What if foreign aid is making the plight of Africans worse? Dambisa Moyo discusses Dead Aid on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Mar 17, 2009). http://www...
Sub-Saharan Africa cannot sustain its present economic resurgence unless it eliminates the hunger that affects nearly a quarter of its people, the United Nat...
The war in Sudan, which began in the early 1980s, was terrible. It took everything from us, including my mom. The next year—when I was 16 years old—I traveled by foot to Itang, an Ethiopian refugee camp. In 1991, the new Ethiopian government disbanded the camp, so I went back to southern Sudan even though I knew there were groups bombing civilians there. During this time,
"If we want to save the world, if we want to secure the world, and if we want a prosperous world, investing in education is so obviously a priority" says Pro...
TED Talks Sheryl WuDunn's book "Half the Sky" investigates the oppression of women globally. Her stories shock. Only when women in developing countries have equal access to education and economic opportunity will we be using all our human resources.
Tobacco companies in Indonesia face being sued by activists concerned by an epidemic of nicotine addiction amongst the country's children.
Exclusive: Friends of Rio say politicians need to recognise the power of collaboration to take sustainable development to scale • Jo Confino is at Rio+20, read his diary on business at the summit here...
Gro Harlem Brundtland and Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Rio+20 must learn from the MDGs, emphasise sustainable development, and tackle climate change and gender inequality...
Forget the Kony 2012 con, something that is old news and no longer current. Since Kony is no longer in Uganda and the country has been in peace for about 6 y...
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