The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Unesco Monday signed an agreement for cooperation for which the UN body will identify special programmes, facilitate outreach and research activities as well as provide branding to courses.
‘We are signing a memorandum of cooperation with Unesco for identifying specific programmes and activities of the university for branding [...]
New York, Dec 23 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon decided Tuesday to call 2010 the year of Millennium Development Goals, which will review progress to achieve a set of eight programmes by 2015.
The goals were set by the UN General Assembly in 2000, including halving extreme poverty, universal education for children, ending child and [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) In an effort to harness the energy, imagination and initiative of the world’s young denizens in overcoming the challenges facing humanity, the United Nations (UN) has declared 2010 as the International Year of Youth, starting Aug 12.
‘The International Year is about advancing the full and effective participation of youth in [...]
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) Rich countries must agree to greater emission cuts while helping developing nations cope financially in their efforts to transform into a low carbon economy, a leading industry body has said.
‘Developed countries must take deeper reduction commitments, both in medium and long term, such as 25 percent reduction by 2020 and [...]
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) International aid agency Global Fund Tuesday announced a $128.5 million grant for India to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Of the newly approved grants, $69.4 million will be provided for expanding care and treatment services for tuberculosis (TB), particularly for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. India bears 21 percent of the global TB [...]
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday said that new infections are fast out-pacing the gains achieved in controlling the spread of HIV, and urged all countries to stop discrimination against the HIV-infected.
‘On World AIDS Day (Dec 1) this year, our challenge is clear. We must continue doing what works, but [...]
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Progress on child issues is slow even though India has accomplished a great deal in ensuring the rights of children almost two decades after it ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Unicef India representative Karin Holshof said Friday.
‘All the pointers are in the right direction but [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The UN millennium campaign, which has been rallying behind world leaders reminding them about the fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, has created a world record by mobilising the maximum support that any campaign ever has, officials said Thursday.
According to Minar Pimple, deputy director and head of [...]
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) To remind world leaders that the deadline to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is drawing near, the civil society and individuals across the world, including in India, began a three-day ‘Stand up, Take action’ campaign Friday.
A set of eight goals on global development challenges, the MDGs have a 2015 [...]
New Delhi, Oct.14 (ANI): Leaders of India and Argentina on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the international economic and financial crisis and agreed that the current situation demands restructuring of the international financial and monetary system so that [...]
United Nations, Oct 13 (IANS) Noting that developing countries had been most affected by the global economic crisis, India has urged rich nations to honour their pledges and keep up the stimulus and other efforts to spur their economies.
On its part ‘India remains firmly committed to realising the vision set out in Cairo 15 years [...]
Washington, October 12 (ANI): Experts have determined that the world will miss its agreed target to stem biodiversity loss by next year.
The goal was agreed at the 6th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in April 2003.
Some 123 world [...]
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) On his first trip to India, the head of UNAIDS will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and senior ministers to emphasize India’s continued support against HIV and AIDS.
Michel Sidibe, the executive director of UNAIDS, will arrive Oct 7 in India and will also visit Mumbai and Bangalore.
‘The visit is to [...]
Washington, October 5 (ANI): Over one million infants who are born too early die each year, according to a new White Paper.
Titled ‘The Global and Regional Toll of Preterm Birth’, it shows that in 2005, an estimated 13 million babies worldwide were born preterm – defined as birth at less than 37 full weeks of [...]
Washington, Oct 1 (ANI): Children as young as five and teenagers are at an increased risk of developing life-threatening malaria, says a new study.
Lead researcher Abdisalan M Noor, from the Kenyan Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and the University of Oxford, said as an unintended consequence of attempting to achieve the targets of [...]
Washington, Oct 1 (ANI): Children as young as five and teenagers are at an increased risk of developing life-threatening malaria, says a new study.
Lead researcher Abdisalan M Noor, from the Kenyan Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and the University of Oxford, said as an unintended consequence of attempting to achieve the targets of [...]
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) The United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC) together with a voluntary organisation Wada Na Tode Abhiyan here Wednesday launched the India chapter of the global people’s movement called, ‘Stand Up Take Action’, to eradicate poverty.
The movement seeks to inspire people to take action in support of the Millennium Development Goals set [...]
New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) The UN Millennium Campaign has just released figures which show that unless rich countries marshal additional resources at the ongoing G20 summit, they are likely to deliver $33 billion less aid than promised to the poor countries which are hardest hit by the global economic crisis.
At the same time, packages [...]
New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) A group of voluntary organisations Friday met President Pratibha Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari to demand an increase in education and health spending to achieve millennium development goals as laid down by the United Nations.
The group-led by voluntary organisation Oxfam presented a seven-point charter on education and a nine-point [...]
New York, Sep 23 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has said climate change had hindered the progress on programmes focused at achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Nepal.
Madhav Kumar, who is in New York, to attend the 64th United Nations General Assembly took part on the Opening Session of the High-Level event [...]
Kathmandu, Sep 22 (IANS) President Barack Obama’s government has announced a $205 million aid for Nepal intended for humanitarian crisis and peace measures.
Over the next five years, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will disburse the funds for peace measures, to strengthen democracy and governance and improve health services.
Kapil Dev Ghimire, joint secretary of [...]
London, Sep 16 (IANS) More than four million children could die unless world leaders deliver additional funds to help poor countries fight climate change, a report warned Wednesday.
Rich countries must come up with additional funds for fighting climate change, rather than raid the money from existing aid promises, said the report by the international nongovernment [...]
