One Billion People Still Drink Unsafe Water-UN
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More than one billion people drink unsafe water and over 2.6 billion, around 40 percent of the world's population, have no access to basic sanitation, U.N. agencies said on Thursday.
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Up to five million people in the tsunami-struck Indian Ocean region lack access to the basic supplies they need to stay alive, such as clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and health care, the United Nations health agency said Thursday.
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Nearly 70,000 women, almost half of them in Asia, die from unsafe abortions each year despite government pledges made a decade ago to improve human rights and reproductive health, researchers said Wednesday.
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China says 312 million villagers face water shortages or use water contaminated by fluorine, arsenic and organic or industrial pollutants.
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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A senior U.N. official says 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child soldiers many of whom are killed, maimed, abducted and raped and denied access to humanitarian groups
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Up to 1.5 million women and children are at risk of &quot;acute malnutrition&quot; after Bangladesh&#39;s worst floods for six years, two UN agencies said yesterday.
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By Anonymous  A rising tide of sewage is threatening the health and wealth of far too many of the world's seas and oceans, says a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Â· UN report bemoans states' lack of urgencyÂ·  Five-year study involved 1,400 scientists
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Some 2.6 billion people in the   world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
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Neurological disorders ranging from migraines to epilepsy and dementia affect up to one billion people worldwide and the toll will rise as populations age, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday.
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Â· Millennium goals within reach for much of worldÂ· Unsafe water undermines educational reforms
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Up to five million people have been left  without basic essentials by the Indian Ocean tsunami, lacking  either water or food or basic sanitation, a senior U.N.  official said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations will launch a global  campaign Monday aimed at ensuring every school in the world has  clean water and sanitation within a decade, cutting health  risks and raising attendance.
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ROME, Jun 29 (IPS) - Water is not the stuff of business, it is a basic  human right. Hama Arba Diallo, executive secretary of the  Convention of the United Nations to Combat Desertification  (UNCCD), is persuaded that the United Nations is about to  formally recognise this principle, possibly by 2008.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON - The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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As many as 160,000 Arizona homes and businesses could have been exposed to contaminated drinking water over the past eight years because overworked water-quality enforcers were unable to investigate violations fast enough, a state audit reported Thursday.