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World Bank highlights new ways to measure and address poverty
The World Bank’s 2018 Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report explores how poverty...
Marine life and World Heritage Sites threatened by rising sea levels and pollution
Coastal World Heritage Sites on the Mediterranean Sea are the latest areas to fall...
World Food Day – 16 October 2018
Today is World Food Day and the 73rd anniversary of the UN’s Food and Agricultural...
International Day of Rural Women – 15 October, 2018
Today marks the UN’s International Day of Rural Women, a day first observed...
Ethiopia-Eritrea border sees families reunited after 20 years
A month after its opening, the Ethiopia–Eritrea border is bustling and filled...
Investments into the clean-energy industry could help slow climate change
With global concern for climate change growing exponentially, some people are contributing...
International Day for Disaster Reduction – 13 October 2018
The United Nations’ International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction is annually...
UNHCR increases aid to Venezuelan migrants in Colombia
With over 4,000 Venezuelans entering Colombia each day, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)...
Save the Children trains mobile teachers to improve childhood education in Myanmar
Due to civil war and political tension, 75,000 children of the Karen people in Myanmar...
Weather and conflict limit Syria’s agricultural production, perpetuating food insecurity
A recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)...
Companies turn their attention to food waste as a way to tackle climate change
With the recent release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report...
Upcoming winter weather poses threat to refugees around the world
Refugees from Syria, Iraq, and in Greece face the threat of freezing temperatures...