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WFP WELCOMES APPOINTMENT OF JOSETTE SHEERAN AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ROME – After full consultation with the World Food Programme Executive Board at a special session attended by all its 36 members and most other member states, the President of the Board, Ambassador Mirza Qamar Beg of Pakistan, announced that the UN Secretary-General and FAO Director-General intend to appoint Josette Sheeran
WFP NEEDS STEADY DONOR FUNDING TO BOLSTER LIVES AND PEACE IN SUDAN KHARTOUM – UN World Food Programme Executive Director James Morris warned today that a shortage of steady and timely funding for food aid to Sudan risked increasing malnutrition among millions of people and threatened pacts to end conflicts in the South and western region of Darfur.
5月16日の「平和に共存する国際デー」は平和・連帯・調和の持続可能な世界を築くために、違いと多様性の中で団結して生き、共に行動したいという願いを掲げた国連の記念日です。この記念に、国連WFPは「Will For Peace ~食料支援と平和への道~」と題したイベントを開催します。
世界では、すべての人が食べるのに十分な食料が生産されている一方で、6億9000万人がいまだに毎晩空腹を抱えたまま眠りについています。そのうち約6割は武力による暴力の影響を受けた地域に住んでおり、紛争は飢餓をなくす上で最大の課題となっています。国連WFPによる支援は紛争や包囲網の中で生きる人や避難を余儀なくされた人々の命をただ救うだけではなく、紛争に拡大しうる緊張を和らげ平和への第一歩となります。
AS BITTER COLD GRIPS ARMENIA, WFP FORCED TO CUT FOOD AID TO HUNGRY POOR YEREVAN – As bitterly cold weather keeps its grip on the Caucasus region, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that due to a lack of funding, it has run out of most food commodities for the 110,000 people it assists in Armenia.