World Hasn't Had So Many Refugees Since 1945, Report Says
Caroline Alexander
The world hasn’t had so many refugees or internally displaced people since 1945, and numbers are expected to increase, according to an Australian research center.
Caroline Alexander
The world hasn’t had so many refugees or internally displaced people since 1945, and numbers are expected to increase, according to an Australian research center.
Washington Post
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The number of children under the age of five who die annually fell below 7 million in 2011, but the U.N. children’s agency says about 19,000 boys and girls are still dying every day from largely preventable causes.
BBC News
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More than 56 million people have been lifted out of poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
A new UNDP report says poverty levels in the period from 2000-2012 fell from 41.7% to 25.3% of the population.
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Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAVOS-RISKS/:World Economic Forum warns of dangers in growing inequality
* Ahead of Davos meeting, forum warns of "lost" generation
* Widening wealth gap ranked as top global risk in 2014
* Extreme weather next most likely cause of major shocks
Chelsea Harvey
The human handprint on the natural world has become evident in all too many ways in recent decades.
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Pablo Correa
[CARTAGENA] The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, which is a tool for measuring acute poverty, should be used to monitor compliance with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a conference has heard.
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Georgi Gotev
UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, who just returned from a number of missions to Iraq, Iran and Lebanon, said Tuesday (3 February) that the international community and the EU should be more active after the end of a conflict, to make sure that it does not happen again.
Mark Anderson
It will cost $1.4tn (£920bn) a year to end extreme poverty for 700 million people and meet the other ambitious targets enshrined in the world’s new development agenda, the UN says.
Heather Stewart
World leaders gathering at the UN in New York next weekend must pledge to make a revolutionary effort if they are serious about meeting the 17 ambitious anti-poverty targets for 2030 that they are due to sign, according to Britain’s leading development thinktank.