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World hunger again on the rise, driven by conflict and climate change, new UN report says
Sep 16, 2017News Hour: After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 percent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual... -
UN chief urges Myanmar to end military operations against Rohingya
Sep 13, 2017News Hour: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called on Myanmar authorities to suspend military action and end violence against the majority-Buddhist nation’s Rohingya Muslims, saying the crisis was destabilising the region. Guterres told a... -
Documentary shows risks of irregular migration faced by Latin American Music Group
Aug 29, 2017News Hour IOM, The UN Migration Agency has released the documentary, The Fable of the Lion and the Coyote, directed by Costa Rican filmmaker and producer, Miguel Gómez. The film, divided into five chapters, tells the... -
Sri Lanka on Path to 100% Renewable Energy
Aug 19, 2017News Hour Sri Lanka can meet it’s current and future electricity demand by judicial use of renewable energy by 2050, according to a joint study by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Asian Development Bank... -
Over 600,000 displaced Syrians returned home in first 7 months of 2017
Aug 15, 2017News Hour Between January and July 2017, 602,759 displaced Syrians returned home according to reports from IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and implementing partners on the ground. Findings indicate that the vast majority of the people... -
Nine dead as UN bases come under twin attack in Mali
Aug 15, 2017News Hour Gunmen attacked two United Nations bases in Mali on Monday, killing a peacekeeper, a contractor and seven Malians, the UN said, in the latest attacks on its presence in the country. The Togolese peacekeeper... -
132 Guinean migrants return home safely from Libya
Aug 11, 2017News Hour 132 Guinean migrants, including six unaccompanied children, returned voluntarily to Guinea from Libya with the support of IOM, the UN Migration Agency, in collaboration with Guinean and Libyan authorities. William Lacy Swing, IOM Director... -
Sudanese criminal justice system works with UN Migration Agency to fight human trafficking
Aug 6, 2017News Hour Over the past two weeks a 10-day training for 20 senior-level judges, lawyers and police officers, on investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases, took place at the Sudan Judicial and Legal Science Institute. The... -
Babies and mothers worldwide failed by lack of investment in breastfeeding
Aug 2, 2017News Hour No country in the world fully meets recommended standards for breastfeeding, according to a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Global Breastfeeding Collective, a new initiative... -
Thai immigration bureau receives advanced equipment from UN Migration agency
Aug 1, 2017News Hour The Thai Immigration Bureau (TIB) received five new Verifier Travel Document and Bearer (TD&B) workstations from IOM to strengthen Thailand’s border control and detect passport and identity fraud. The donation is part of the...
