Top UN officials on Friday praised the recent $20 billion pledge made by G8 countries to boost food security in developing and poor countries.
The World Health Organisation has said that the death toll attributed to the Ebola outbreak has risen above 4,000.
With more than one million people affected by the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organisation has warned that there is "no early end in sight" to the severe health crisis and called for "extraordinary measures" to stop the transmission of the disease.
India handed over signed documents to the head of UN treaty division at the opening of the special event to mark the International Day of Non-Violence.
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