Water Pollution

  Women at work

Women spend much more time working than men in virtually every society for which time use studies are

Publication Date: 
Tuesday, March 30, 1999
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Rural Habitat, Women, UN, Developing Countries
Natural Disasters

 UNITED NATIONS

According to United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) official, David Morton, the continuing famine in North Korea is comparable to the Ethiopian famine in the mid-1980s.

Publication Date: 
30/03/1999
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Women, Children, Drugs, AIDS, UN
Environment

 Oceans of fantasy

The potential cost to humanity when marine resources fail are serious enough to warrant international concern.

Publication Date: 
30/03/1999
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Environment, Oceans and Seas, UN, Marine Life
Climate Change

 The UN Convention to Combat Desertification is a non starter. Administrative and financial matters get the better of any serious attempts to deal with global desertification. Though the desert is expanding, the North is not interested

Publication Date: 
30/01/1999
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UN
India

 The UN Convention to Combat Desertification is a non starter. Administrative and financial matters get the better of any serious attempts to deal with global desertification. Though the desert is expanding, the North is not interested

Publication Date: 
30/01/1999
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UN
Industry

 The UN Convention to Combat Desertification is a non starter. Administrative and financial matters get the better of any serious attempts to deal with global desertification. Though the desert is expanding, the North is not interested

Publication Date: 
30/01/1999
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UN
Biodiversity

 UNITED NATIONS

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has called upon various governments to closely work with the Convention to Combat Desertification, a body fighting for reversal of dryland

Publication Date: 
14/01/1999
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Tags:
Malnutrition, UN, FAO, Asia, South America
India

 FOLLOW UP

Massive relief operations are underway to rescue tens of thousands of people who became victims of Hurricane Mitch, mostly in Nicaragua and Honduras. The death toll, which is estimated

Publication Date: 
30/12/1998
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Storms, UN, Honduras, Nicaragua
India

 UNITED NATIONS

Various , United Nation (UN) agencies - United Nations' Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nation's Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nation's Industrial Development Programme (UNIDP) -

Publication Date: 
14/12/1998
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Tags:
Fishing Boats, UN, FAO
India

 Roll back malaria

IN AN effort to combat malaria, four United Nations' organisations - the UN International Children's Fund, the UN Development Programme, the World Health Organisation and the World Bank - joined

Publication Date: 
14/12/1998
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Malaria, Health Care, UN, India

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