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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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Mexico: Streets not Carved with Gold

The global population has hit a staggering seven billion and in many of the world’s largest cities, overcrowding is forcing some, especially the young, to live life on the streets.  In Mexico City, many set up home in flimsy  shacks, often turning to gangs for protection and survival. UNIA program # 1326 Transcript (pdf): http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/unia1326.pdf

Date:22 December 2011
Programme number:1326
Duration:00:04:51

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