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Sugar, dairy and staple grains push food price index up by 0.7 per cent in October – UN

Photo:Armenian cheese on sale at the market in Yerevan, the capital and largest city in the count

Despite progress, hundreds of children still die of measles every day – UN-backed report

Photo:A boy who fled a village south of Mosul, Iraq, receives a measles vaccination from a UNICEF

All countries should see air pollution in Delhi as ‘wake-up call’ – UNICEF

Photo:In Lagos, Nigeria, workers at a sawmill in Ebute-Metta district walk by burning garbage and

UNICEF sounds alarm over safety of children in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

Photo:Children having a meal at a school in Hakha city, Myanmar.

MARRAKECH: New initiatives on forest protection give boost to climate action agenda

Photo:Forest loss contributes to 1/6 of annual greenhouse gas emissions.

MARRAKECH: UN conference spotlights water, the ‘first victim’ of climate change, as part of the solution

Photo:Collecting clean water in Badnoogo village, Burkina Faso.

Small farmers can earn big returns by investing in climate adaptation, new UN report finds

Photo:Small-scale family farmers and rural communities are highly vulnerable to extreme weather e

New direct funding available for low- and middle-income countries to regulate tobacco – UN

8 November 2016

Aiming to curb pregnancy risks and improve experience, UN launches new prenatal care model

Photo:A health worker immunizes a pregnant woman inside at health center in Aurangabad, India.

Past five years hottest on record, says UN weather agency

Photo:A portion of one of the more than 200 islands of Palau, an island nation in the Pacific Oce