Over 2,000 participants, drawn from governments, UN agencies, civil society, academia, industry and think tanks, are participating in the two-day conference, to be held under the theme of "Shaping a Future of Global and Sustainable Progress." As the first UN civil society conference to be h...
Issak said the overall objective of the program is bring down the level of maternal deaths of the six high burden counties to within Kenya's average in the next four years. The UN agencies involved in the program include the Joint UN Program on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS), World Bank, UNFPA, UN ...
UN Environment Program (UN Environment) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed a new, wide-ranging collaboration on Wednesday to accelerate action to curb environmental health risks that cause an estimated 12.6 mil...
UN Environment Program (UN Environment) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed a new, wide-ranging collaboration on Wednesday to accelerate action to curb environmental health risks that cause an estimated 12.6 million deaths a year. The two UN agencies inked a deal in Nairobi, Ken...
Read:Kenya drops from list of top 10 suppliers of UN agencies Kenya’s battle for the seat comes barely a month after it lost the IMO secretary-general post to Arsenio Velasco of the Republic of Panama who takes over on January 1 next year. ...
By Declan Walsh and Abdi Latif Dahir in Nairobi, KenyaSun Nov 19 2023 - 04:17 Unicef chief calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire Catherine Russell declares that ‘inside the Strip, there is nowhere that is safe for Gaza’s one million children’ By Michael JansenThu Nov 16 2023 - 06:00 ...
"UNHCR stands ready to support the government of Kenya in continuing and further strengthening the work that is ongoing to find solutions that are orderly, sustainable and respect refugee rights," the agency added. Since May, the UNHCR and its affiliated agencies have provided quarantine and hygien...
There are also 63 UN Information Centres in other parts of the world. Website: http://www.un.org Specialized Agencies of the UN The intergovernmental agencies related to the UN by special agreements are separate autonomous organizations which work with the UN and each other through the co-...
She met a refugee at a camp in Kenya who had been raped at gunpoint when she was eight-months-pregnant while gathering firewood, and a Somali father who was fighting for justice for his daughters, aged four and six, who had both been raped. ...
Illegal Logging, Timber Trade in East Africa Now to Face INTERPOL, Five UN AgenciesKenya, Tanzania and Uganda have agreed to work together along with INTERPOL, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Development Program, the UN Environment Program and the UN Office on Drugs and...