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In a bid to enable fathers have adequate time to spend with their newborn babies, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged all countries to provide fathers with legally paid paternity leave.
UNICEF seeks paternity leave for fathers Read More
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili on Wednesday said he was resigning.
Georgian Prime Minister Kvirikashvili resigns Read More
The Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs’) latest joint report on climate financing said US$ 27.9 billion, or 79 per cent of the 2017 total, was devoted to climate mitigation projects that aim to reduce harmful emissions and slow down global warming.
MDB climate finance hit record high of $35.2b in 2017 Read More
WorldStage Newsonline– Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has reiterated the commitment of the 8th Senate and indeed the National Assembly, to work towards the eradication of Child Labour in the country.
World Day Against Child Labour: Ending child labour is a national priority – Saraki Read More
Director-General, Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NIBBRI), Prof. Danladi Matawal says additional two billion urban inhabitants are expected by 2030.
NIBBRI projects 2 billion global urban inhabitants by 2030 Read More The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday expressed concern over the low attention and investment in the sanitation sector in Nigeria.
We are worried over low attention, investment in sanitation – UNICEF Read More
WorldStage Newsonline– The World Health Organisation (WHO), has warned that the outbreak of cholera in parts of Adamawa in Nigeria may spread to other areas and across the border to Cameroon posing a major public health threat.
Cholera outbreak in Adamawa in Nigeria may spread to Cameroon – WHO Read More An increasing number of migrant children are being expelled to Niger as countries across Europe and North Africa seek to curtail irregular migration, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
UNICEF says migrant children expelled to Niger as Europe, North Africa tighten borders Read More
UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner welcomed the announcement today of the Secretary-General’s appointment of the following four individuals to his senior leadership team.
UNDP announces four new members of leadership team Read More
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNDP, the United Nations Development Programme, agreed today in Nay Pyi Taw with the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar on the text for the tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). It is planned that the MoU will be signed in the course of the next week, the exact date of which is still to be confirmed.
UNHCR, UNDP agree on MoU with Myanmar over return of Rohingya refugees Read More