UN DAILY NEWS from the UNITED NATIONS NEWS SERVICE 29 August, 2016 ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ __________________ AT START OF WORLD WATER WEEK, UNICEF HIGHLIGHTS HOW WOMEN AND GIRLS LOSE VALUABLE TIME AND OPPORTUNITIES COLLECTING WATER As World Water Week kick off today, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has highlighted that the opportunity cost from a lack of access to water disproportionately falls on women and girls who collectively spend as much as 200 million hours – or more than 22,800 years – every day collecting this vital resource. "It would be as if a woman started with her empty bucket in the Stone Age and didn't arrive home with water until 2016. Think how much the world has advanced in that time. Think how much women could have achieved in that time," UNICEF's Chief of Section of Water, Sanitation and H...

  We are very pleased by the PM Theresa May's equality agenda. This is the first time that a UK PM specifically and loudly call   on all UK institutions to address the barriers that   many disadvantaged people are facing in accessing to services and opportunities.   This has never happened in any developed word. It   only happening in UK. Mrs Theresa May will be remembered as   pro-Equality Lady. We do not need any more the   empty equality rhetoric   and propaganda from   the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats just to attracts voters.   We are confident that the PM will succeed in tackling disadvantage caused by   discrimination, prejudice, social class, disability, mental health, poverty, race and ethnicity, and gender   that prevent people from accessing employment, housing, education, health, and criminal justice.   The PM should urgently   find ways of solving the problems of   hundreds of   thousand...

  Bilinguals are more attractive, say 71% of Americans By Maureen O'Hare , CNN Updated 1125 GMT (1925 HKT) August 24, 2016 A tourist poses in front of the "House of Flags" installation in London's Parliament Square in 2012. Story highlights 71% of Americans and 61% of Britons believe being multilingual makes a person more attractive Around a quarter of Americans and Britons think being monolingual has held them back professionally One in eight admits to exaggerating their language skills on a resume (CNN) Want greater success in your career and your love life, as well as a healthy brain long into old age? The answer could be to learn another language. Or at least that's the case according to a majority of Americans and Britons polled in a new survey by language app Babbel . Apparently, 71% of Americans and 61% of Britons believe speaking more than one language makes a person seem more attractive. Oui, c'est vrai! O...