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World Trade Organization mulls how to ease food aid hurdles in pandemicDozens of WTO members, including the United States, the European Union and China, support the proposal put forward by Singapore and the Wor...
- Nobel Prize ceremony to be held online this year, laureates to get their medals in their countries
The laureates will receive their medals and diplomas next week.
- Pandemic foils Nobel prize festivities
The Nobel prizes are traditionally awarded at formal ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of prize creator Alfred N...
- WFP chief won't pick up Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo due to pandemic: Foundation
"We are now considering the possibility of holding a digital award ceremony where the WFP will be presented with the medal and diploma," th...
- The Borlaug legacy: The common link between farmers’ protests in Punjab and stubble burning
Norman Borlaug’s battle against world hunger, which won him the Nobel Peace Prize 50 years ago, was fuelled at least in part by his own exp...
- Time for billionaires to loosen the purse strings & donate: World Food Programme seeks millions for food
WEF was awarded the Noble Peace Prize on Friday for combating world hunger.
- UN chief congratulates WFP on Nobel Peace Prize
The World Food Program has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic. It's a recognition tha...
- UN food agency World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize 2020 for its efforts to combat hunger
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali was awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
- World Food Programme chief 'deeply humbled' by Nobel win, calls it 'incredible recognition' of WFP family
In 2015, eradicating hunger was adopted as one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
- This is the first time in my life I've been without words: WFP head David Beasley on Nobel Peace Prize
The announcement was made in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee. The Nobel Committee said that the coronavirus ...
- WHO, Greta Thunberg or press watchdogs for Nobel Peace Prize?
The World Health Organization is the bookies' favourite to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, though experts say Greta Thunberg or press ...
- Introducing fortified staples, more ration can help kids who missed mid-day meals in lockdown: UN WFP
Introducing fortified staples in the food baskets distributed to schoolchildren, focussing on fulfilling nutritional requirements of childr...
- India-UN Development Partnership Fund supports projects to respond to Covid-19
Established in 2017, the India-UN Development Partnership Fund is a dedicated facility within the United Nations Fund for South-South Coope...
- Number of undernourished people declines in India; obesity in adults on the rise: UN
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, released on Monday, estimated that almost 690 million people globally were undern...
- How can schools reopen safely post COVID-19? UN agencies, World Bank lay down guidelines
As per UNESCO estimates, over 154 crore students are severely impacted by closure of educational institutions across the world amid the COV...
- World could face multiple famines of biblical proportions due to COVID-19: UN body
The novel coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last, has so far infected over 2,565,290 people and claime...
- Lifting virus lockdowns too quickly could spark 'deadly resurgence': WHO
Over 1.6 million infections have been recorded globally, with the death toll is rapidly approaching 100,000.
- 90% Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh under-nourished: UN
More than 650,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since August 25, 2017, when rebel Rohingya militia launched deadly attacks aga...
- Head of UN food agency says world must step up Rohingya aid
David Beasley, head of the U.N.'s World Food Programme, said Sunday that the WFP needs $75 million in the next five to six months to meet c...
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