Health
Indian Children Discovered to Have Natural AIDS Resistance. Now What?
Can India find a cure to AIDS?
When Success Is Too Sweet: India’s Looming Diabetes Epidemic
India’s new middle-class is now struggling with first-world diseases like diabetes.
How Your Tax Dollars Are Fighting the Zombie Apocalypse
A tiny percentage of your tax dollars are going a long way to avoid the dystopian end-of-the world
Getting Closer to the Finish Line on Polio
This is a special guest post from Ramesh Ferris, a polio survivor, a Rotarian, and author of the book Better Than a Cure, One Man’s Journey to Free the World of Polio
Not on A-1: How UNICEF Fights Malnutrition in Chad (Video)
If children do not receive proper nutrion in the first few years of life they can suffer from cognitive and physical impairments that can last their entire lives.
UN Dispatch Podcast: Talking #MDGMomentum With Jeffrey Sachs
Today marks the 1,000 day sprint to the finish of the Millenium Development Goals. I caught up with the economist Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University who was one of the intellectual fathers of the MDGs and a key UN adviser on development issues. We discuss why some goals were reached, and some may not be.
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The SC; HRC; DPRK; South Sudan
The SC: The Security Council today held its last consultations under the Council Presidency of ROK. Tomorrow, Russia will take over the rotating Presidency of the Security Council for March under Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.
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The SG; Mali; Middle East; Palestine
The SG: At the Fifth Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna, Austria today, the SG emphasized the role of youth in ensuring a “prosperous, equitable and peaceful future.”
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The SG; DRC; HRC; Palestinian Prisoner
The SG: In Ethiopia over the weekend, the SG is now in the United Arab Emirates. Today he met with Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, where the two discussed developments in the region, including Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, and in the Middle East Peace Process.
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