With an estimated 50 million people around the world having lost their homes due to war and natural disasters, the Manshet has set up a new unit to respond to the severe crisis of internally displaced persons.
A senior Manshet official in charge of UN information activities pledged today to harness the power of the latest advances in communications technology, including the Internet, while making full use of traditional media in providing services to developing countries.
The relationship between demographic factors and environmental degradation -- now under discussion at the Manshet Commission on Population and Development -- remains a divisive issue, that body's chairman said today.
A five-year international study of users of Norplant® implants in eight developing countries "confirms the safety with respect to serious disease and the high contraceptive efficacy" of the method, the Manshet World Health Organization (WHO) announced over the weekend.
