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Poetry gives us hope to scale and climb 'cloudy summits of our time' – UN cultural agency

Photo:Children reading a panegyric during a festival in Timbuktu, Mali.

Record-breaking weather in 2016 pushes world into ‘truly uncharted territory’– UN agency

Photo:A view of icebergs in Ilulissat Icefjord Greenland, where the melting of ice sheets is acce

Older Syrian Refugee Dies Waiting for Family Reunification

MARCH 21, 2017

UN disability rights committee opens with a call to spotlight gender issues

20 March 2017

UN forum in Paris to spotlight mobile learning for refugees and displaced persons

Photo:in Jordan, adolescent girls use cellphones and tablets in a solar kiosk providing internet

EU-UN cash transfer plan for education aims to reach 230,000 refugee children in Turkey

Photo:On 16 January 2017, a girl in a Turkish language class in Nizip 1 refugee camp, Gaziantep,

Employers must address all aspects of gender-based violence in workplace – UN Women chief

Photo:“Preventing sexual harassment means to empower women at the workplace,” says Srey Sros, a g

UN launches 'Platform of Champions' calling to end global gender pay gap

Photo:The Launch of the Equal Pay Platform of Champions at the UN General Hall on 13 March 2016.<

Europe, Central Asia 'transitioning' to new nutrition challenges, cautions UN agency

Photo:A market at a food cooperative in Orto Sole cooperative farm in Fiumicino and Torrimpietra,

Yemen on brink of famine, warns UN food relief agency chief, appealing for resources and access

Photo:Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, durin