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As robotics advance in South-East Asia, investment needed to build skilled workforce – UN labour agency

07 July 2016

Response to El Niño must be ramped up amid preparedness for La Niña's likely knock-on effect – UN

Photo: Dugda Woreda, East Showa zone, Oromia region, Ethiopia, an area severely affected by the d

INTERVIEW: UN health official discusses unprecedented vaccination campaign to tackle cholera in Haiti

Photo: A woman sleeps on the steps of a hospital adjacent to a Cholera treatment center in Lester

Floods deal ‘staggering’ blow to pastoralists recovering from Ethiopia’s long drought – UN

Photo:Drought associated with the El Niño phenomenon has severely affected Arsi, Ethiopia.

UN hails ambitious Canada-Mexico-US partnership to fight climate change

Photo:Boreal forests line a misty fjord in southeast Alaska (file).

Groups Secure Settlement Requiring Alpha Natural Resources to Fund Community Restoration Projects

Richmond, VA, July 1, 2016

U.S. NIH-led effort uses implementation science approaches to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission

June 30, 2016

1 in 3 Hospitals in Developing World Lack Running Water

July 3, 2016

On World Day, UN hails cooperatives as drivers of sustainable future

Photo: Members of the Cooperative Agriculture Maraicher for Boulbi, water and hoe their vegetable

Two UN agencies team up to protect cultural heritage with geo-spatial technologies

Photo:Destruction shown in April 2016 at the World Heritage site of Palmyra in Syria.