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 ...

The United Nations’ World Food Programme has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work to combat hunger around the world, beating favorites Greta Thunberg and the World Health Organization. The ...

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 ...

2025 marks a historic year for youth at the United Nations. It has been 30 years since the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY) — the first action plan on policies and programmes for youth — was ...

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The director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme laid out a plan to spend $6.6 billion to combat world hunger — a direct response to a back-and-forth with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who claimed he ...

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 ...

UNESCO launched the Memory of the World (MoW) Programme in 1992 to guard against the collective amnesia, calling upon the preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over ...

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 ...