World Bank Report Alerts on Learning Crisis in Schools
New York (ABC Live): Learning Crisis in Schools : Schooling without learning is a terrible waste of precious resources and of human potential, the World Bank said today, warning in a new report that...
View ArticleHydroSOS to Assess Global Hydrological Variability
New Delhi (ABC Live): HydroSOS : Following weeks of floods that have devastated different parts of the world, leading hydrologists are working to develop the first worldwide hydrological monitoring...
View ArticleWorld Tourism Day 2017 Reminds Green Tourism
New Delhi (ABC Live): World Tourism Day 2017 : Yesterday was World Tourism Day 2017, an opportunity to remind people of the importance of responsible and sustainable tourism for development and...
View ArticleUNSC Accredits ICAO Global Aviation Security Plan
New York (ABC Live): ICAO Global Aviation Security Plan : Highlighting multifaceted threats to aviation security in the context of international peace and security, the head of the United Nations civil...
View ArticleWEF Global Competitiveness Report Confirms Steady Growth
New Delhi (ABC Live); WEF Global Competitiveness Report : Almost 10 years after the economic crisis, the world economy is in much better shape. The slow yet steady growth seen over the last few years...
View ArticleIndia Global Competitiveness Ranking Improves to 40th Place
New Delhi (ABC Live); India Global Competitiveness Ranking : India indexed at 40th place in WEF Global Competitiveness Report released on September 26, 2017. India stabilizes its position on 40th place...
View ArticleKnow Judge Four Fundamental Qualities
New Delhi (ABC Live) : Judge Four Fundamental Qualities : A judge has to be possessed of excellence not only from within but he should also visibly display the functional excellence which is necessary...
View ArticleUN Observes International Disaster Reduction Day 2017
New York (ABC Live):International Disaster Reduction Day 2017 :The International Day for Disaster Reduction was started in 1989, after a call by the United Nations General Assembly for a day to promote...
View ArticleESCAP Confirms Asia-Pacific as Most Disaster-Prone Region
New Delhi (ABC Live): ESCAP :Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and intense and disaster risk is outpacing resilience in Asia-Pacific, the most disaster-prone region in the world, according...
View ArticleAntónio Guterres Presents $5.4 billion UN Budget for 2018-19
New York (ABC Live): UN Budget : United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today presented the Organization’s proposed programme budget for the 2018-2019 biennium, amounting to just under $5.4...
View ArticleInternational Girl Child Day 2017 Aims EmPOWER Girls
New York (ABC Live): EmPOWER Girls : The world’s 1.1 billion girls are a source of power, energy, and creativity – and the millions of girls in emergencies are no exception, the United Nations said on...
View ArticleSophia Bats for Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development
New York (ABC Live): Sophia : Artificial intelligence has the potential to accelerate progress on global development goals, but also poses a range of complex challenges, including ethical questions,...
View ArticleYouth Obesity Emerges as Global Health Crisis
New Delhi (ABC Live):Youth Obesity :The number of obese children and adolescents aged five to 19 years worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades, and if current trends continue, there will...
View ArticleIAEA Study Confirms Brachytherapy Effective for Cervical Cancer
Vienna (ABC Live): Brachytherapy : A five-year long clinical trial conducted in seven low and middle-income countries has confirmed the safety and effectiveness of combining high doses of internal...
View ArticleWHO Admits Zoonotic TB Patients Left Behind
Mexico (ABC Live): Zoonotic TB : Stressing the damaging impact on poor rural communities in Africa and South-East Asia of animal tuberculosis’ (bovine TB) transmission to humans, United Nations health...
View ArticleSophia Father Hanson Discuss Artificial Intelligence Future
New York (ABC Live): Sophia Father Hanson : At 18 months-old, Sophia cannot walk, but she can understand speech and, at United Nations Headquarters in New York, participate in panel discussion and...
View ArticleMike Moore on Agricultural Outlook Forum 2001
Washington (ABC Live):Agricultural Outlook Forum 2001 ; Madam Secretary, Ladies and Gentlemen First of all let me thank Secretary Veneman, and her predecessor, Dan Glickman, for inviting me to be here...
View ArticleFusarium wilt TR4 Fungus Poses Threat to Banana Crops
New York (ABC Live): Fusarium wilt TR4 : The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on Wednesday that it is working with partners to help protect the world’s banana crops a...
View ArticleUN Condemns Terrorists Attacks in Afghanistan
New York (ABC Live): Afghanistan : Secretary-General António Guterres and the United Nations Security Council have condemned yesterday’s attacks in Afghanistan’s Paktya and Ghazni provinces, which...
View ArticleEERL Joins Hands With UNFCCC for Transport Biofuels
New Delhi (ABC Live):– EERL : Ahead of the UN Climate Conference in Bonn (COP 23, 6-17 November), Ethanol Europe Renewables Ltd (EERL) and UN Climate Change have partnered to boost the deployment of...
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