NY 17 October 2011_For decades the United Nations has worked to free people from poverty.  We have made great progress — but today those gains are in doubt.

Too many people are living in fear:  fear of losing their jobs; fear of not being able to feed their families; fear of being trapped forever in poverty, deprived of the human right to live with health and dignity and hope for the future.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children 's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday called for an urgent increase in the efforts to combat what the UN agency described as "one of the worst ever" cholera outbreaks affecting large numbers of people across central and West Africa.