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Tag: World Population Day

  • Tuesday, July 11th 2017 - 07:05 UTC

    World Population Day

    World Population Day, which seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Program in 1989, an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11 July 1987.

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2011 - 00:29 UTC

    The year of the seven-billionth baby, up two billion since July 1987

    Ban Ki-moon: “We have enough food for everyone, yet nearly a billion go hungry”

    The United Nations marked on Monday July 11, World Population Day, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressing that ending global poverty and inequality was the key to unleashing the great human potential for prosperity and peaceful coexistence.