U.N. Meeting Hopes to Energize Anti-Hunger Campaign
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World leaders gather at U.N.  headquarters on Monday to inject new life into a global  campaign to eradicate hunger, which conference organizer Brazil  denounces as "the worst of all weapons of mass destruction."
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The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process.
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PADUA, Italy, Nov 22 (IPS) - Civil society groups preparing for the World Social  Forum in January are building up a campaign to make the United  Nations an instrument for change that empowers people.
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A forthcoming video game aims to educate children about the global fight against hunger.
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The United Nations and the African Union plan a meeting in Libya this month on how to advance peace talks among rebel groups in violent Darfur where 2.5 million people are homeless, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
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The United Nations Security Council is traveling to Nairobi, Kenya, for a special two-day meeting on the conflicts in Sudan. The Security Council meetings on Thursday and Friday are intended to put pressure
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The U.N. Security Council gave its support on Friday to plans for a quick U.N. response to a plea for help from Nepal's government and Maoist rebels in enforcing their landmark peace agreement.
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UNITED NATIONS - Ambassadors from the UN Security Council will head to Kenya on Tuesday for a rare meeting outside New York aimed at pressing for an end to Sudanâs long-running civil war and the separate crisis in Darfur.
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JERUSALEM -- UN Mideast peace envoy Terje Roed-Larsen urged Israeli prison authorities Friday to ensure the well-being of Palestinian prisoners on their 13th day of a hunger strike.
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The country representative of the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF), Morten Giersing, sought cooperation Thursday from the rich of the society for the wellbeing of the children.
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Brazilian president Luiz InÃ¡cio Lula da Silva declared that it is not going to be easy to convince all the participants at the UN meeting, formally known as the Action Against Hunger and Poverty, that financial mechanisms must be created to end the
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The United Nations was bringing key Mideast players together Thursday for a series of meetings over the escalating hostilities between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Tens of thousands of children marched against hunger in Liberia Sunday, adding their voices to a global event to tackle food shortages that many in the war-battered west African nation have felt firsthand.
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The United Nations urged Israel yesterday to find a solution to a 13-day-old hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, reminding Israel
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Millions of people marked an  annual International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on  Wednesday by joining a mass "stand up" around the world aimed  at promoting U.N. targets on reducing poverty.
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The number of hungry people in the world has hardly budged in the eight years since nations pledged to cut the number in half by 2015, a U.N. agency said Wednesday.
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After a tussle with the Sri Lankan government, the head of the U.N. World Food Program met a Tamil Tiger guerrilla leader Sunday to discuss distribution of food to tens of thousands of tsunami-affected people in rebel-held territories.