Negotiations on the final political document for the Rio+20 conference will now be led by Brazil which has assumed the presidency of the sustainable development forum. Government representatives late on Friday concluded the third and final preparatory meeting ahead of the conference, with agreement on nearly 40 per cent of the text. Pragati Pascale, [...]
Statement attributable to the Head of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria, General Robert Mood There has been an intensification of armed violence across Syria over the past 10 days. This escalation is limiting our ability to observe, verify, report as well as assist in local dialogue and stability projects – basically impeding our ability [...]
A delegation of 24 young women from 15 different countries is in Brazil to represent the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts organizations, at the UN's conference on sustainable development, known as Rio+20. They are advocating for gender equality and non-formal education to be part of the final outcome document for the conference. Jane Harris, a [...]
An effort is underway in Chad to convince mothers of the importance of breastfeeding. The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, says the nutritional crisis in the African country is being compounded by one of the world’s lowest rates of breastfeeding – only three mothers out of every hundred exclusively breastfeed their children. The agency has [...]
