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    • UN in ACTION, an award-winning television series, reports on the work of the UN and its Agencies around the world. These 3- to 5-minute features illustrate UN peacekeeping efforts as well as projects aimed at reducing poverty and human suffering, fighting disease, providing humanitarian assistance and stimulating economic growth. The series consists of fifty seven pieces a year and is available free of rights to broadcasters. For more information, please contact Diane Barkley, barkley@un.org.
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Brazil Drylands: The Promise of Water

The United Nations has named 2010-2020 the UN Decade on Deserts and the Fight against Desertification. A phenomenon unknown to many, desertification threatens almost half of the world’s land. If left unchecked, its effects are disastrous. But in the drylands of Brazil, new hope is emerging... UNIA Programme # 1289 Transcript (pdf): http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/unia1289.pdf

Date:25 April 2011
Programme number:1289
Duration:00:04:40

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