New York, Aug 13 (JEN): Africa has made great strides towards eradicating polio but the job remains to be finished through strengthened immunization campaigns and surveillance measures, acco ...

New York, Aug 13 (JEN): Progress has been made in ongoing reform of the water sector in Tajikistan, a United Nations rights expert noted at the end of his recent mission to the country, and ...

New York, Aug 11 (JEN): Indigenous peoples must not be left out of the global community’s unfolding sustainable development agenda, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon affirmed on ...

New York, Aug 10 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community to commit to do more to improve the health and well-being of indigenous peoples ...

New York, Aug 6 (JEN): The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are supporting a new vaccination campaign announced today by the Government of Ki ...

New York, Aug 5 (JEN): The United Nations health agency was forced to suspend 84 per cent of frontline programmes in 10 governorates in Iraq in July due to insufficient funding, leaving almo ...

Mumbai, Aug 3 (JEN): Bollywood couple Raina and Sachiin Joshi's Big Brother Foundation entered Limca Book of Records on July 31.

New York, Aug 1 (JEN): Having achieved its “core objective” of scaling up global action to tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Respon ...

New York, Jul 29 (JEN): Marking World Hepatitis Day 2015, which falls on 28 July in honour of the birthday of the scientist who discovered the hepatitis B virus and its first vaccine, the Un ...