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15 Million Babies Born Too Soon Every Year, Including Half Million in U.S. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Preterm babies are born at a higher rate in the United States than in 130 other countries of the world, including many poorer nations, according to the just-released report Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth. The report, containing the first-ever estimates of preterm birth rates by country, was published today by The March of...

LONDON, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Anglo American is the first company to commit to the United Nations Women/United Nations Global Compact Women's Empowerment Principles at the UK launch, and has strengthened its resolve to increase gender diversity across its international operations and in its host communities. Launched in the UK market yesterday evening, by the United Nations National Committee (UK), the Women's Empowerment Principles are designed to help companies...

PITTSBURGH and MUMBAI, India, April 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mylan Laboratories Limited, the Indian subsidiary of Mylan Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL), today announced that it has entered into a partnership with the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals Health Alliance (MDGHA) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to fight childhood deaths caused by diarrhea. According to a recent United Nations study, India has the highest number of childhood fatalities per year caused by...

WSPA supporters ask world leaders to put animal welfare on the Rio+20 agenda NEW YORK, April, 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today at the United Nations, the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) handed nearly 110,000 signatures on its global petition to improve the treatment of farm animals, to the Executive Coordinators of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), Ms. Elizabeth Thompson and Mr. Brice Lalonde. The petition represents the...

LONDON, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- We, the undersigned international engineering societies, with a combined membership of over 750,000, hereby commit our support to achieving Sustainable Energy for All. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon built on the UN General Assembly's Resolution declaring 2012 as the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All by establishing a new UN global initiative, "Sustainable Energy for All," aimed at achieving three interlinked...

2012 UNCA AWARDS FOR BEST COVERAGE OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND ITS AGENCIES WINNERS WILL BE HONORED AT GALA EVENT ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19(th )AT CIPRIANI 42(nd )STREET IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) invites media worldwide to submit entries for its 17th Annual UNCA Awards Dinner and Dance for the best written and electronic media coverage of the United Nations, its agencies and field operations....

Armen Orujyan PhD, Founder and CEO of Athgo Corporation, has joined the United Nations’ venerated Broadband Commission for Digital Development as a Commissioner. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 21, 2012 Armen Orujyan PhD, Founder and CEO of Athgo Corporation, has joined the United Nations’ venerated Broadband Commission for Digital Development as a Commissioner. The Commission, founded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNESCO, comprises a select group of top CEOs...

VANCOUVER, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - WesternOne Equity Income Fund ("WesternOne Equity") (TSX: WEQ.UN, WEQ.DB.B and WEQ.DB.C) today announced that its Board of Trustees has approved a cash distribution of $0.05 per trust unit for the month of April 2012 (equivalent to $0.60 per trust unit on an annualized basis). This distribution will be paid on May 15, 2012 to unitholders of record at the close of business on April 30, 2012. In addition, WesternOne Equity announced that...

BRASILIA, Brazil, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - EITI International Secretariat The governments of Colombia and Ukraine announced yesterday that they would implement the EITI, the standard for transparency of revenues from natural resources [http://eiti.org ]. These announcements were made at the summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). 35 countries [http://eiti.org/countries ] are already implementing the EITI. Complying with this global...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Latino Policy Coalition (LPC) submitted an official complaint for the Universal Periodic Review by the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the human rights record of the United States of America. The 10 page complaint charges the U.S. with routinely and consistently violating human rights by officially causing the de facto misappropriation and removal of at least an estimated 46,000 children from...