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

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

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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 Development Fund (UNCDF) Goodwill Ambassador Sonia Gardner, has told UN News, in the second of our two part series this weekend, on the role the financial sector can play in reducing inequality.
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Fair Finance: How can the global inequality gap be narrowed?

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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 financial sector this weekend, Hiro Mizuno, the newly-appointed UN Special Envoy on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments, explains how the industry can help to create a fairer, more equitable world.
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EU must place social justice ‘at its core’ to lift people out of poverty

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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 the bloc to boldly rethink its whole socio-economic approach.
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UN reports major progress towards eradicating sheep and goat plague

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The world is moving closer to stamping out a highly contagious disease that affects sheep and goats, but also the livelihoods of millions of families who depend on these animals for food and income, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday. 
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Citizens globally affirm belief in international cooperation to overcome challenges

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People worldwide have overwhelmingly highlighted their faith in multilateralism to address global challenges, the results of a year-long survey by the United Nations have shown. 
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World Bank expects global economy to expand by 4% in 2021

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The World Bank Group on Tuesday issued a guarded growth forecast for the global economy this year, saying that a four per cent overall expansion was likely, although the recovery will likely be a “subdued” one.
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‘Growing momentum’ to make 2021 the global action year for sustainable energy

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In a bid of optimism for the new year, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) expressed confidence that clean energy would grow in 2021. 
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After year of ‘trials, tragedies and tears’, UN chief sends message of hope for 2021 

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As the world enters 2021, after a “year of trials, tragedies and tears”, the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has delivered a message of hope for the new year. 
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Humanitarian Charles Mully on Documentary Showcase

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Los Angeles, CA—December 10, 2020—In commemoration of Universal Human Rights Month, observed each December, Scientology Network’s Documentary Showcase is proud to announce its airing of the award-winning documentary Mully. It is the unforgettable story of a man...
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Fruits and vegetables crucial for healthy lives, sustainable world: Guterres

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The United Nations is marking 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, spotlighting their vital role in human nutrition and food security, as well as urging efforts to improve sustainable production and reduce waste. 
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People, planet on ‘collision course’, warns UN Development Programme

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Countries must redesign their development pathways to reduce damage to the environment and the natural world, or risk stalling progress for humanity overall, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has warned in a major new report. 
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Contribution of life in soil ‘remains largely underestimated’, says UN agriculture agency 

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Even though soil organisms play a crucial role in boosting food production, enhancing nutritious diets, preserving human health, and combating climate change, the real contribution of these tiny life forms remains largely underestimated, the UN agriculture agency (FAO) said on Friday. 
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COVID-19 can spark new generation of social protection measures: UN chief

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While COVID-19 has wiped out important development gains in mere months, with extreme poverty rising for the first time in decades, the pandemic could spark the transformations needed to achieve stronger social protection systems, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday.  
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Address water scarcity ‘immediately and boldly’, urges UN agriculture agency chief 

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More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high levels of water shortages and scarcity, the UN agriculture agency said in a new report launched on Wednesday. 
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‘Foundational and necessary change’ needed to heal post-COVID world

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With the COVID-19 pandemic precipitating one of the world’s worst health, socioeconomic and humanitarian crises in over a century, the UN chief told a high-level discussion on Tuesday to seize the opportunity “to make real, foundational, and necessary change”. 
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This World Children’s Day, ‘reimagine a better future’, for every child

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The global community is marking World Children’s Day on Friday, calling for societies to “reimagine a better future” for every child, where each one has the opportunity to thrive. 
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Development funding and trade transparency needed, to stop COVID-19 dividing the world

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The pandemic has redefined the world economy in ways that will deepen inequality and can only be reversed if a global transformation in attitudes towards trade and development allows the whole world to recover together, the UN trade body UNCTAD said, in a report published on Thursday. 
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Backed by space technology, Asia-Pacific countries power sustainable development

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Asian and Pacific nations are increasingly leveraging space technology and geospatial information to respond to challenges on the ground, including in their efforts to contain the spread and mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new United Nations report. 
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COVID disruption will ‘pale in comparison’ if world fails to act on climate change, SDGs

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The fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “go hand in hand”, the UN chief told a major development bank conference on Thursday.
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WHO’s Tedros says it is time for the world to heal, pushing back on ‘misguided nationalism’ 

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World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told Member States on Monday that efforts to tackle climate change and poverty had been set back by a lack of global unity since major agreements were struck five years ago, and welcomed the chance to work with the presumptive new US administration of president-elect Joe Biden.
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Religious liberty endangered by French Draft Law Against “Separatism”

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Religious liberty endangered by French Draft Law Against “Separatism”
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Macron gets a request from NGOs around the world to have his anti-separatism bill reviewed by Venice Commission

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Macron gets a request from NGOs around the world to have his anti-separatism bill reviewed by Venice Commission
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Sustainable urbanization critical to COVID-19 recovery, better quality of life

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Cities will be critical for the world to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst recession for decades, according to the latest report published by UN-Habitat, the UN agency working on urban issues. 
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Millions affected as devastating typhoon strikes Viet Nam

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Millions affected as devastating typhoon strikes Viet Nam
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