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Sustainably managed forests hold vast potential to play a decisive role in ending hunger, improving livelihoods and combating climate change.
FAO/Simon Maina

UN agency develops new guidelines to help countries better monitor forest resources

26 July 2017
Climate and Environment

The United Nations agriculture agency has created new guidelines to help countries develop a strong mechanism to monitor national forest resources.

Health workers vaccinate a child in a medical centre in Al-Radwanieh village, rural Aleppo.
UNICEF/ Al-Issa

Health services, especially vaccines, must ‘reach the unreached,’ stress UN agencies

17 July 2017
Health

Globally, nearly 13 million infants – almost one in ten – did not receive any vaccinations last year, putting them at serious risk of potentially fatal diseases, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said today, urging greater efforts to extend the reach of health services.

Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, addresses the Security Council debate on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

INTERVIEW: 'Disarmament matters' in times of crisis, stresses new High Representative

6 July 2017
Peace and Security

Izumi Nakamitsu has taken the helm of United Nations disarmament affairs at a time when needs are greatest for the world to invest in conflict prevention.