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A child in Dhaka’s Karial slum, Bangladesh. According to the UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2007, one billion people, or roughly one out of three urban dwellers, live in slum conditions.

Cabo Verde’s development projects supported by the United Nations are helping to transform the agricultural sector of Santo Antão, the westernmost island of Cabo Verde. Since 1997, the development projects have helped moving water to irrigate and created useable farmland in an arid climate which previously was unusable for farming. The projects have also focused on turning land into more sustainable farming situation and teaching residents to learn to market better product such as switching from sugar cane to banana and other more sustainable products.

Unique ID UN7ALB50487

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Headline Population and Family Planning

Caption Description Each year an estimated eighty million people arrive on earth, putting great strains on governments to provide for them. For five days in April 1981, representatives from 76 nations met in Jakarta, Indonesia for an International Conference on Family Planning in the 1980s to discuss ways to reduce the number. The conferees encouraged the nations that now support family planning – now numbering 118 – to upgrade and expand their efforts through more widespread education, dissemination of contraceptives, voluntary sterilization and other methods, but recommended restricted use of cash incentives to promote particular birth control methods “because they tend to distort the user’s perspective and may lead to abuse.”

A Bengali child pauses against a whitewashed wall while running an errand. [1981]

Unique Identifier UN7557925

NICA ID 293563

Production Date 01/01/1981 9:37:15 AM

Country Bangladesh

Credit UN Photo/John Isaac

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