UN urges rapid action on poverty
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A major UN report on world poverty calls for a huge increase in development aid to the poorest countries.
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Iraq has appealed to the United Nations to play a more active role in the country, and for the international community to speed up the distribution of reconstruction aid.
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Science and technology could do far more to end hunger and poverty than politicians realise, United Nations advisers say.
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The United Nations said that it had secured concrete aid of 717 million dollars toward its emergency relief appeal for the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, and urged donor countries to speed up delivery of further aid promises.
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Somalia's transitional government urged the Security Council on Friday to speed up its planning for the possible deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force to replace African Union troops in the war-wracked nation.
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The United Nations secretary-general has urged the Security Council to take immediate action over a US draft resolution on Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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THE HAGUE, Jul 5 (IPS) - A "new partnership" between rich and poor  countries is required if the United Nations goals of reducing  extreme poverty by 2015 are to be realised, according to an  official who helped devise those objectives.
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The United Nations says there has been some progress in improving sexual health and combating poverty around the world, but more funds are needed to meet goals the international community set 10 years ago.
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A global effort to fight poverty with better population management that UN officials once hoped could &quot;change the world&quot; has made limited progress after one decade, a new UN study said yesterday.
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The world's media is urged to find ways of making the global battle against poverty more engaging.
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Science & environment: UN conference calls for large and rapidly developing countries to do more to tackle global warming.
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The UN children&#39;s agency Saturday called upon eastern and southern African nations, where more than eight million children live in dire poverty, to fight the boom in child trafficking on a war footing.
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The world is making scant progress toward  an aim of halving the number of hungry people by 2015 but could  still succeed if efforts are redoubled, the United Nations said  on Wednesday.
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A United Nations-backed national anti-malaria campaign in Ethiopia today appealed for urgent funding to fill a shortfall of over 50 per cent in aid needed to combat a potential upsurge in the disease that could affect more than 6 million people within the
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UNITED NATIONS/N'DJAMENA  - U.N. Secretary General  Kofi Annan called for immediate action on Wednesday to end what  he termed a near hell on earth in Sudan's western Darfur  region.
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The rapid growth of slums in the world's towns and cities is increasing urban poverty and creating a breeding ground for terrorism, fanaticism, pollution and disease, the United Nations said on Friday.
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The UN's food agency urges international help for nations struggling to dispose of stockpiles of unused pesticides.