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UN chief urges global solidarity, accelerated climate action after visit to hurricane-stricken Barbuda

7 October 2017

Empower teachers; give them the freedom to teach, UN urges on World Day

Photo:Children in their classroom as the teacher conducts the lesson at the St.

Vegetable oils lift food prices in September; cereal prices down on bumper crop prospects

Photo:Children in Gourdaha, West Bengal, India, collect sunflowers from which to extract the seed

A year after Hurricane Matthew, Haiti's children still incredibly vulnerable to disasters – UNICEF

Photo:At the St.

NIH Grantee Wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

4 October 2017

Affordable housing key for development and social equality, UN says on World Habitat Day

Photo:Urban October design competition.

UN health agency recommends large-scale deworming to improve children’s health

Photo:A child in Honduras being dewormed. Photo: Sabin Institute.

Lake Chad Basin: Vulnerable people ‘a step away from starvation,’ says UN aid chief

Photo:Children prepare freshly caught fish, village of Tagal, Lake Chad region, Chad.

Major new UN report sets course towards ‘pollution-free planet’

Photo:Woman wears mask to protect from pollution. China.

On World Day, UN announces global initiative to end deaths from dog-transmitted rabies by 2030

Photo:Veterinarian vaccinating a street dog.