The Asia-Pacific region home to two-thirds of the worlds one billion malnourished people must see growth in agricultural investment to tackle the hunger challenge, a senior United Nations official stressed today. The number of hungry people in Asia and the Pacific climbed by more than 60 million in 2009 to 642 million, Jacques [Read More]
The United Nations said it is closely monitoring developments in Colombo following yesterdays protests outside the world bodys offices, noting that it has received assurances of the safety and security of its staff from the Sri Lankan Government. Hundreds of people took part in the protests, which were reportedly led by Housing [Read More]
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today released a report on lessons learned while working with the Chinese Government to address the environmental impact of the devastating earthquake that hit the countrys Sichuan province in May of 2008. In the report, entitled UNEP in China: Building Back Better, the agency details its [Read More]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has chosen the Armenian city of Yerevan as the 2012 World Book Capital as part of the agencys ongoing efforts to promote books and reading. Armenias capital and largest city was chosen for the quality and variety of the programme it presented to the [Read More]
The weather pattern known as El Nio rapidly dissipated in early May, giving way to the development of cool, neutral to weak La Nia conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported today. El Nio refers to an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern [Read More]
