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• WHO

  - 2006-04-21

  The World Health Organization is a United Nations agency focused on public health and the prevention of disease worldwide. Established in 1948, WHO's main objective, as set out in its constitution, is "the attainment of all people of the highest possible level of health." WHO has 192 member nations, including...

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• United Nations dispatches emergency relief to Iran.

  - 2006-04-04

  M2 PRESSWIRE-4 April 2006-UN: United Nations dispatches emergency relief to IranC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03042006 NEW YORK - In the wake of the series of earthquakes that struck Lorestan province in western Iran in the night and early morning of 30 ...

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• UN dedicates $1.7 million from new global emergency fund to Horn of Africa.

  - 2006-04-03

  M2 PRESSWIRE-3 April 2006-UN: UN dedicates $1.7 million from new global emergency fund to Horn of AfricaC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:31032006 NEW YORK - The United Nations has now granted just over $1.7 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund CERF...

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• $1.5 billion sought to fight bird flu in poor nations

  - 2005-11-10

  GENEVA -- Experts at a World Health Organization conference estimated that they would need about $1.5 billion to develop antiviral drugs and vaccines and to help less-developed countries fight lethal bird flu, which has been found in 15 countries and could spread farther this winter as birds migrate. The...

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• Preparedness plans, vaccine development, farmer compensation called for, as ecosoc holds special event on 'urgent, global' threat from Avian flu.

  - 2005-11-04

  M2 PRESSWIRE-4 November 2005-UN: Preparedness plans, vaccine development, farmer compensation called for, as ecosoc holds special event on 'urgent, global' threat from Avian fluC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03112005 No country was exempt from the spread of Avian flu, and preventing ...

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• Flu catastrophe fear.

  - 2005-10-02

  Byline: Jason Frenkel and Lachlan Heywood Oct 02, 2005 (Herald Sun - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The United Nations issued a warning about a new strain of flu on 30 September 2005 as it ...

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• Should Global Rules Have Legal Teeth? Policing (WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) vs. Good Citizenship (UN Global Compact)

  - 2005-10-01

  ABSTRACT This study examines two multilateral initiatives, the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control FCTC and the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Compact. These are two efforts to engage transnational corporations in the development process and in the articulation of a set of multilateral rules of engagement regarding good...

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• A welcome sight: it is in dealing with humanitarian issues, both chronic and acute, that the United Nations is perhaps at its best.(UNITED NATIONS--HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES)

  - 2005-09-01

  Humanitarian disasters can occur anywhere, any time. Newspapers around the world continually report on floods, drought, earthquakes, and conflicts that kill and displace people, leaving communities paralyzed. In the midst of such disasters, UN organizations supply food, shelter, medicines, and other support to...

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• Replace the sugar, please?

  - 2005-06-01

  The World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations both stress the importance of a low-glycemic diet. New dietary guidelines released this past January by the U.S. departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture also reinforce the value of carbohydrates like ISOMALT sugar replacers...

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• Solving global water crisis 'Moral Imperative', access to water human right, Mikhail Gorbachev tells Sustainable Development Commission on second day of Commission's high-level segment; Focus remains on turning past political commitments into action; page

  - 2005-04-22

  M2 PRESSWIRE-22 April 2005-UN: Solving global water crisis 'Moral Imperative', access to water human right, Mikhail Gorbachev tells Sustainable Development Commission on second day of Commission's high-level segment; Focus remains on turning past political commitments into action; page 1 of 9C1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD ...

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