A girl collects drinking water at the Dala River outside Yangon, Myanmar, March 2016. The United Nations reports that, worldwide, 900 children, age 5 or younger, die each year because of dirty water. (CNS photo / Soe Zeya Tun, Reuters)
"There is no country in the world where all people have equal opportunities to fulfill their aspirations. Every country has poverty and inequalities to address. Every country has environmental problems to remedy."
- U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, speaking to the body in July and quoted in Sisters urge UN to remember grassroots work in pursuing development goals; October 24 is United Nations Day, marking the foundation of the international organization 71 years ago in 1945
