New York, Feb 7 (JEN) South Sudan is on the brink of a major food insecurity crisis as millions of people remain trapped by the country’s ongoing internecine fighting, the United Nations F ...

New York, Feb 6 (JEN) Global food prices have continued to plummet, aided by a weak euro and the low cost of crude oil, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported o ...

New York, Feb 5 (JEN) The ongoing conflict in South Sudan is sharply reducing food supplies and slowing humanitarian access to people in need, the United Nations children’s agency (UNICE ...

India has the sixth largest coal reserves in the world, but with a booming population and not enough coal mined within its own borders, it’s not enough. A potential relationship between In ...

New York, Jan 30 (JEN) The world's network of lakes, rivers and streams that provide fish and fresh drinking water to millions of people must be better managed in order to safeguard their on ...

New York, Jan 28 (JEN) The number of international tourists reached 1.13 billion in 2014, 51 million more than in 2013, on trend for the fifth consecutive year of above average growth since ...

New York, Jan 24 (JEN): At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, today, UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to achieving women’s empowerment and gender equality, unvei ...

New York, Jan 24 (JEN) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged world leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to maintain their focus on a bro ...

New York, Jan 23 (JEN)Private sector services, such as business and administrative services, and real estate, as well as related industries, will employ more than a third of the global workf ...