UN body challenges JK to meet health targets

The United Nations Population Fund expects around 140 million child brides between 2011 and 2020. If current levels of child marriages hold, 14.2 million girls annually or 39,000 daily will marry too young. Furthermore, of the 140 million girls who will marry ...

City-based Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, on behalf of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will undertake a study to gauge the contributory factors for reversing the son-preference mindset in the country, especially in face of the ...

While international targets on clean drinking water were met nearly three years ago, a joint United Nations agency report today warns that without a major funding push, some 2.4 billion people - one-third of the worlds population - will remain ...

New York, May 11 (IBNS): The United Nations Childrens Fund Friday condemned in the strongest possible terms the re-recruitment and the killing of a 17-year-old boy in the (CAR) associated with the and called for the release of all children linked to ...

Editor's note: Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin is an under-secretary-general and executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, an agency that champions reproductive rights of women. (CNN) -- Our failure to give women in certain parts of the ...

Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, funded the girls-only primary school in an area outside Kabul that has a high refugee population, E! Angelina Jolie has opened another girls school in Afghanistan and plans to ...

THE United Nations has commended first lady Dr Christine Kaseba for her advocacy against early marriages. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) executive director Dr Babatunde Osotimehin said his organisation was ready to support Dr Kaseba's ...

The United Nations Security Council has made a wise decision to create an ambitious African stabilization mission for Mali. To succeed, however, this mission will need to draw lessons from the other side of the continent, where African peacekeepers ...

SPA -- U.S. Secretary of State today announced a new contribution of USD 8.4 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for its programmes assisting refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. The funds will help UNRWA respond to the ...