MADRID — On Sunday, members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization will elect a new director general amid pressure on the agency to improve its own administrative efficiency, as well as that of the world’s poorest farming nations.
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Laos: NGOs flay Nestlé’s infant formula marketing, some of which presents infant formula as better than breastfeeding
“Some of the marketing strategy presents formula as better than breastfeeding,” Laurence Gray, World Vision’s Asia-Pacific advocacy director, told IRIN. “It doesn’t take into account the circumstances needed to prepare the formula.”
Madagascar: Poverty and malnutrition on sisal plantations
At the Centre for Treatment of Acute Malnutrition with Complications (CRENI) in the town of Amboasary Sud in the Anosy region of southeastern Madagascar, Samina Tahiaritsoa, 20, cradles her son, Lambo, 3, who still weighs less than six kilograms after 10 days at the centre.
Congo: Measles kills 32, infects hundreds
At least 32 people have died and 800 others have been infected following an outbreak of measles in the southern Pointe Noire and Kouilou regions of the Republic of Congo, say health officials.
Chad: Children unprotected as polio spreads
As polio strikes more and more people in Chad – 68 cases so far this year – tens of thousands of children are unprotected largely due to flaws in how vaccination campaigns are run.
UNHCR 2011 refugee statistics: full data
The number of people forcibly displaced worldwide has reached 43.7m people, the highest number in 15 years, according to a report published today to mark World Refugee Day.
Nepal: No clear way out of servitude for girls sent to work as household servants
Efforts to free thousands of enslaved girls in Nepal and get them into school need more funding and less government bureaucracy, activists say.
UNHCR report says refugee numbers at 15-year high
The number of forcibly displaced people around the world has reached a 15-year high, according to the UN high commission for refugees (UNHCR), with the vast majority languishing in poor countries ill-equipped to cater to their needs.
International Labor Organization passes convention giving rights to domestic workers
Activists campaigning for the rights of domestic workers are celebrating the passing of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) convention recognizing domestic work as work. The convention is a long time coming and has brought the often invisible and abused to the forefront of protection, says a leading human rights agency.
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