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New York: With climate change presaging natural mega-disasters, aid workers facing mounting attacks in conflict areas and the economic crisis crimping resources, the United Nations office coordinating the global humanitarian response announced its agenda for 2011 today: more lives saved, more rapidly, with fewer gaps and less duplication.

New York: Women continue to reap less benefits from employment in agriculture than men in rural areas, and the recent global financial and food crises have slowed down progress towards gender equality in farming-related labour, three United Nations agencies said in a joint report unveiled today.

New York: The United Nations health agency today called for action to reduce the exposure of children to the marketing of food with high contents of fat, sugar or salt, which exposed them to the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) caused by poor diet during their lives.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a successor two-year arrangement for Poland under the Flexible Credit Line (FCL) in an amount equivalent to SDR 19.17 billion (about US$30 billion, or 1,400 percent of quota).

New York: The drought is worsening in many parts of strife-torn Somalia, with herders reported to be moving into Mogadishu, the capital, with their livestock for the first time ever due to lack of pasture and water, the United Nations reported today.

New York: The economic upturn in most Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2010 fuelled a 0.6 percentage point drop in unemployment – from 8.1 per cent in 2009 to 7.5 per cent – and is expected to lead to a further decrease of between 0.2 and 0.4 percentage points this year, the United Nations reported today.

New York: The United Nations human rights chief today voiced deep concern over the fate of a group of about 40 migrants who have been missing since they were abducted in Mexico last month, and death threats to a prominent human rights defender assisting other migrants who escaped the kidnapping ordeal.

New York: Five countries in southern Africa have issued flood warnings following unusually heavy rainfall throughout the region, the United Nations humanitarian office reported today.

New Delhi: India will aggressively promote transgenic agriculture but will also adequately take care about the concerns relating to health and environment, said Ashwani Kumar while taking charge as the Union minister for science and technology and earth sciences on Friday.

New Delhi: A leading Parliamentarian and spokesperson of the ruling Congress Party Manish Tewari urged the international community for “acceptable rules of the game” and “a global space coordinating agency” to prevent militarisation of space.