United Nations says more needed to fight population growth ...
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UNITED NATIONS: 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 on Wednesday.
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One billion children - half the world&#39;s population of children - suffer from poverty, conflict, HIV and AIDS, according to the United Nations child rights organisation.
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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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More than half the world's  countries are falling behind in a U.N. campaign to reduce child  deaths by two-thirds by 2015, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF  reported on Thursday.
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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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More than one billion children, half of the world's population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS, the United Nations Children's Fund said in its annual report.
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A UK parliamentary group concludes population growth threatens the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
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The United Nations must offer better protection to 25 million civilians displaced by conflicts from Sudan to Colombia, a report said on Friday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for more efforts and measures to protect people from blood contamination and shortage in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-born diseases.
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Unicef, the UN agency with the task of ensuring children&#39;s survival, was accused yesterday of not doing enough to prevent the suffering and death of millions of youngsters around the world.
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Natural disasters are affecting more and more people, the UN says ahead of a conference on reducing the risks.
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The human population is living far beyond its means and inflicting damage to the environment that could pass points of no return, according to a major report from the U.N.
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A push by developed nations could cut poverty in half within a generation, the UN says.
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Millions more health workers are needed if global health is going to be improved over the next decade, a study says.
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Some countries have taken major strides to improve the rights and reproductive health of women but more must be done to meet goals set at a UN conference a decade ago, according to a report released Tuesday.
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A new global fund is needed to fight cancer which kills more people than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined and threatens to reach epidemic proportions in the next decade, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations World Food Program says malnutrition was spreading at an alarming rate in Sri Lanka's Tamil rebel-held regions with nearly one in five children suffering stunted growth.