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Impact of COVID-19 on cancer care has been ‘profound’, warns UN health agency 
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Impact of COVID-19 on cancer care has been ‘profound’, warns UN health agency 

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a “profound” impact on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer around the world, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, before highlighting that breast cancer has become the most common type of the disease. 

2 February 2021 · 3 min read

Consecutive drop in new COVID-19 cases ‘encouraging news’: WHO
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Consecutive drop in new COVID-19 cases ‘encouraging news’: WHO

The number of new COVID-19 cases globally has fallen for the third week in a row, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Monday, though urging countries not to let…

1 February 2021 · 4 min read

WCC looks to its 11th General Assembly with call for an
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WCC looks to its 11th General Assembly with call for an “ecumenism of the heart” – Vatican News

The World Council of Churches prepares its 11th General Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany, with a call for an “ecumenism of the heart” in a broken world.

1 February 2021 · 3 min read

Hopes of fresh momentum in fight against leprosy, but stigmatization persists
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Hopes of fresh momentum in fight against leprosy, but stigmatization persists

Progress is being made in the fight against leprosy, but millions are still affected by the disease, and many sufferers have to contend with social exclusion. On World Leprosy Day,…

31 January 2021 · 2 min read

Fair Finance: The women entrepreneurs lifting communities out of poverty
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Fair Finance: The women entrepreneurs lifting communities out of poverty

Helping women start and grow businesses in the world’s poorest countries is a path to lifting them and their families out of poverty, the high-profile businesswoman, and new UN Capital…

31 January 2021 · 6 min read

Fair Finance: How can the global inequality gap be narrowed?
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Fair Finance: How can the global inequality gap be narrowed?

Reducing inequality is one of the UN’s flagship goals, but the gulf between rich and poor worldwide, remains persistently high. In the first of a special two-part series on the…

30 January 2021 · 5 min read

EU must place social justice ‘at its core’ to lift people out of poverty
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EU must place social justice ‘at its core’ to lift people out of poverty

The European Union’s failure to lift 20 million people out of poverty by 2020, is “a defeat for social rights”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, urging…

29 January 2021 · 3 min read

Follow the science: UN plans for a stronger pandemic recovery
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Follow the science: UN plans for a stronger pandemic recovery

Funders responsible for more than $100 million of annual global research investments joined the deputy UN chief Amina Mohammed on Friday to discuss how to unify research efforts, and use…

29 January 2021 · 2 min read