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Fast Retailing and UNHCR celebrate 10th anniversary of ‘Power of Clothing Project’

Japanese retail holding company Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. celebrates the 10th anniversary of its ‘Power of Clothing Project’ in collaboration with UNHCR, which encourages students to collect discarded children’s clothing in order to give them to refugee children in need. The project first launched in 2013, with a total of about 380,000 students...

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What to know about the UN’s Xinjiang human rights report

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a detailed report following its assessment of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in which it said that “serious human rights violations have been committed”. The region, which produces around a fifth of the world’s cotton, has been the subject of an increasing...

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2021 is the year of the Creative Economy for Sustainable Development

The time, as they say, is now. After a year of pandemic-induced lockdowns, there couldn’t be a better time to appreciate the creative economy, says the United Nations. This is why the world’s leading intergovernmental organisation has marked 2021 as the International Year of the Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. UNCTAD, alongside...

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Model Natalia Vodianova named new UN women's health envoy

United Nations, United States - Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova travels the world working for luxury fashion brands such as Balmain and Stella McCartney, and now as a United Nations’ goodwill ambassador she’ll be promoting a new global message about normalizing discussions on women’s reproductive and sexual health. Vodianova was named as a...