In 1961 the Eisenhower administration played a key role in the establishment of the World Food Programme (WFP) - an experimental effort to provide food through the United Nations to people around the ...

I am pleased to deliver this statement on behalf of His Excellency, Sam Kutesa, President of the General Assembly. I also extend my appreciation to the Office of the Secretary-General’s Youth Envoy ...

The objectives of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons are to promote effective measures for prevention of disability, rehabilitation and the realization of the goals of ''full ...

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The World Food Programme (WFP) works closely with UNHCR during emergencies and longer-term crises to provide food to uprooted people around the world, especially vulnerable groups such as women and ...

The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Programme on Friday morning with the award committee stating, "The need for international solidarity and multilateral cooperation is more ...

The causes of global hunger are many and well-known: conflict, climate and in too many cases, cruelty. But it is the job of the United Nations World Food Programme to push through those barriers to ...

July 27 (Reuters) - The World Food Programme hopes that an Israeli humanitarian pause in designated areas of the Gaza Strip will allow for a surge in urgently needed food aid to the region, it said on ...

GENEVA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Programme said on Monday that Israeli forces had opened fire on one of its convoys in the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza in what it called a ...

The vision of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme is that the world's documentary heritage belongs to all, should be fully preserved and protected for all and, with due recognition of cultural ...