Brazil to wipe out extreme poverty by 2014
Authorities in Brazil have come up with a plan to lift 60 million Brazilians out of extreme poverty in two years time.
Authorities in Brazil have come up with a plan to lift 60 million Brazilians out of extreme poverty in two years time.
American troops have joined the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) to help the new African nation stand on its own feet.
An agreement between members of the UN Security Council to end the on-going crisis in Syria could have been struck if western powers had shown more patience….that’s according to the Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin.
Promoting full employment, identifying solutions to global economic, social and health problems, and encouraging respect for human rights.
Foreign and local armed groups continue to pose a threat to security in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the head of the UN Mission in the country (MONUSCO).
The international community will continue to look for a way to end the violence in Syria following the failure to pass a UN Security Council resolution, according to the Moroccan Ambassador to the United Nations
Go to school. Graduate. Get a good job. That is the path young people have been told to follow from their earliest years. But the ongoing financial and economic crisis has changed that.
By-elections scheduled for April to fill parliamentary seats in Myanmar will be a “critical test” for the government as it carries out political reforms in the country.
Women in 15 African countries are working to abandon the deeply rooted traditional practice of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C).
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) estimates up to three million girls a year undergo the procedure.
A network of 50,000 women is helping Nepal to make great strides in health care. The Female Community Health Volunteers, or FCHVs as they are known, bring essential health services and medicine to remote areas of the country.