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UN Top Headlines Updated for the Americas Haiti: UN mission launches projects to provide jobs and cut violenceThe United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti has unveiled three drainage and canal rehabilitation projects that it hopes will boost employment and reduce violence in troubled neighbourhoods of a major city. UN agency helps stave off hunger and save farms in southern BoliviaThe United Nations food aid agency has stepped in to help in southern Bolivia's El Chaco region, where a long dry spell has decimated maize harvests, threatening an entire culture of indigenous corn growers with destitution. Latin American, Caribbean exports to jump 21 per cent this year, finds UN studyA new United Nations study says that exports from Latin America and the Caribbean will grow by 21.4 per cent this year, owing mainly to purchases from Asia - particularly China - and the normalization of United States demand. Senior UN official urges action amid rise in violence against Honduran pressThe recent murder of a radio journalist in Honduras brings to nine the number of media professionals killed there so far this year, and prompted a senior United Nations official to call for urgent action to stem the rise in violence against members of the press. UN agency helps Mexico City better prepare for disastersAbout 10,000 civil servants in the Mexican capital will receive specialist training in disaster risk reduction under a United Nations-backed initiative to better protect the city, which is vulnerable to devastating earthquakes. Ban voices support for Chilean miners trapped undergroundSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his support for the 33 miners in northern Chile who have been trapped underground for more than three weeks. Condemning migrant killings in Mexico, UN rights chief calls for urgent actionThe United Nations human rights chief today strongly condemned the killing of 72 migrants in northern Mexico and called on the authorities to take urgent steps to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice. UN-backed talks focus on bolstering biodiversity in Latin America and CaribbeanWays to address challenges to biodiversity conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean - which is home to up to 70 per cent of all forms of life on Earth - were the focus of a gathering organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) this week. Venezuela: UN agency provides training to help combat sexual violenceA United Nations-backed project in Venezuela has trained dozens of government officials and security force members on how to prevent sexual and gender-based violence and provide better care and protection for victims. Haiti: UN peacekeepers urge political candidates to focus on plight of homelessThe plight of Haiti's homeless since January's catastrophic earthquake must be the top priority for all candidates in this November's presidential and legislative elections, the United Nations peacekeeping force in the impoverished Caribbean country has stressed. UN News For Europe | UN News For the Americas UN News For Asia and the Pacific | UN News Main Headlines |
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