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Funding crisis may force UN agency to delay start of school year for half a million students in Middle East

26 July 2015

School's Out, Fattening Behaviors Are In

July 26, 2015

High School Band Classes May Boost Teen Brains

July 24, 2015

UN-backed action plan to improve study of weather and climate in Polar regions takes shape

16 July 2015 – An international action plan to improve predictions of weather, climate and ice co

Combining social protection with pro-poor investments can eradicate world hunger by 2030 – UN

10 July 2015 – According to a new joint United Nations agency report, an additional $160 per year

Small farmers can be major actors in reducing agriculture's carbon footprint - UN agency

8 July 2015 – Helping farmers adapt to the impacts of climate change can also significantly reduc

Alarmed by melting glacier in Norway, Ban says world must 'act now' to curb climate change

8 July 2015 – At the site of a rapidly shrinking glacier in the Norwegian Arctic, United Nations

Education 'essential to vision of a life of dignity for all,' says Ban at Norway summit

7 July 2015 – The Oslo Summit on Education for Development is a chance to reaffirm the human righ

Lead in fruits, drugs in livestock among issues to be tackled by UN food standards body

6 July 2015 – The United Nations food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, today ki

Sites in China, Iran, Mongolia and Singapore inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List - See more at: http://en.unesco.org/news/sites-china-iran-mongolia-and-singapore-inscribed-unesco-s-world-heritage-list#sthash.rk5aFabr.dpuf

Bonn, Germany, 4 July—The World Heritage Committee this morning approved the inscription of six c