World Water Day: UN urges cooperation on fragile resource

By the estimates of The United Nations, close to 2.6 billion people in the world are deprived of the basic clean drinking water. Most of them stay in the underdeveloped parts of the world, where there is no proper facility to produce drinking water. Peru, is ...

At the eleventh hour before a crucial United Nations Human Rights Council resolution calling on Sri Lanka to improve the post-war welfare of ethnic Tamils on the island, the U.S. appears to have w...

New York, May 14 : While international targets on clean drinking water were met nearly three years ago, a joint United Nations agency report Monday warns that without a major funding push, some 2.4 billion people - one-third of the world's population - will ...

To lift a deadly taboo on talking about toilets and to turn the world into an "open defecation-free zone", the United Nations has launched a campaign. The World Water Day initiative aims to cut the 3,000 children under five who die each day from water-borne ...

Amit Ranjan After a remark made by Boutros-Boutros Ghali, former Secretary General of the United Nations, that water is going to be the reason for third world war, many officials and scholars started chanting this mantra from various forums and stage. It is ...

The United Nations warned that economic losses from disasters have spun out of control and called on the world's business community to incorporate disaster risk management to their investment strategies to avoid further losses. Governments bear the ...

Museum Will Honor Local Holocaust Survivors and World War II Veterans on June 9 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers PR Newswire WASHINGTON, May 16, 2013 WASHINGTON, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Marking two decades of honoring the ...

Two years after the UNICEF and the World Food Program classified 40% of Yemen population as food risk, a senior United Nations relief officials is painting a gruesome picture, warning that aid relief is no where near where it should be, so much so ...

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