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The Canc煤n Agreements are a small step for the planet, but they are nonetheless a beginning that can spark more action, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC , said in a speech to the Conference of the Sec
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The Sindh Department of Health today released new data on the nutrition crisis, showing global acute malnutrition rates of 23.1 per cent among children between the ages of 6 and 59 months in flood-affected areas of northern Sindh and 21.2 per cent in southern Sindh.The rates are well above t
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International and national bodies have determined that several methods of execution are likely to violate the prohibition of torture, because of the pain and suffering they are likely to inflict on the convicted person, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra ad Al Hussein, at the opening of the biennial high-level panel discussion on the death penalty, which was organized as part of the Human Rights Council s current session. Studies of the severe pain and suffering caused by other methods has continued to extend
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As a 15-year-old who had spent half her life in Saudi Arabia s expatriate community, Claudine Gay got a rude awakening when, in the 1980s, she returned home to a private New Hampshire boarding school.Suddenly, the fact she is an African American mattered. There s this whole bundle of assumptions made depending on what you look like, Gay said.Gay, whose parents emigrated from Haiti to New York before she was born, said her high
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Mr. Ban was deeply concerned by the loss of life and serious damage caused by severe storms and flooding in parts of India and Pakistan, his spokesperson said in a statement.The statement also commended the prompt and effective response to the disaster in both countries. According to UN relief agencies on the gro
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