Report: UN food agency needs reform
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The United Nations body charged with fighting world hunger needs to reform itself or face "terminal decline," an independent report said Wednesday.
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The UN secretary general pledges to discipline officials after a damning report on oil-for-food corruption.
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan said on Monday that resignations of several senior  officials gave him a chance to reshuffle his team, under fire  in Washington because of the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.
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UN audits newly released point to widespread mismanagement in the former UN oil-for-food programme for Iraq.
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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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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the organization is in need of reform, but remains the international community&#39;s best hope for facing global threats and challenges.
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A high-level panel on reforming  the United Nations has proposed two models for enlarging the  U.N. Security Council, according to a major report obtained by  Reuters on Monday.
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A World Bank report that measures factors like corruption control, government accountability and absence of violence, released on Tuesday, shows little overall improvement in governance worldwide despite increasing focus on the issue.
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A sweeping new global report, released by the World Health Organization today in New York City, urges governments to get tough on the tobacco epidemic before it's too late
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Hunger and malnutrition are killing more than five million children a year, with Africa bearing the brunt in human lives, and costing developing nations billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to the UN food agency's annual hunger report.
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The United Nations' nuclear watchdog prepares a report that could trigger further UN sanctions
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Many of the world's poorest people are unable to get enough food because of soaring prices partly caused by the use of food crops to produce biofuels, the head of the U.N. food agency said.
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NEW YORK - Germany has called for the speedy reform of the 59-year-old United Nations joining other nations in pressing for a restructuring of the ageing organisation to help it meet new global changes.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 25 (IPS) - An EU âaction planâ to soften the blow from  proposed sugar reforms is not good enough, some of the poorest  developing countries say.
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Â· UN report bemoans states' lack of urgencyÂ·  Five-year study involved 1,400 scientists
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The government needs to work harder at encouraging the nation to eat healthily, a consumer watchdog says.