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Are you up to speed on what's happening at the UN?

Take a minute to test your knowledge of the events, issues
and people making the headlines over the past week.

1. Thousands of children in ________ will be able to return to classes with the help of the UN refugee agency, which has repaired over 130 primary schools damaged during two decades of conflict between the Government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army.

Sudan
Chad
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Uganda
Ethiopia

2. Action film star Jackie Chan visited the tiny nation of Timor-Leste this week in his role as a Goodwill Ambassador for ________.

UN refugee agency
UNICEF
World Health Organization
UNAIDS
World Food Programme

3. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the need for rich countries to take the lead in tackling the three crises of global food insecurity, ________ and development in poor countries, a message he will take with him to next month’s G-8 summit in Japan.

terrorism
drug trafficking
climate change
violence against women
child labour

4. In a major milestone in the world’s largest resettlement operation, the number of Myanmar refugees that have left Thailand with UN help for new lives in third countries topped ________ this week.

30,000
45,000
60,000
75,000
100,000

5. A new initiative to safely dispose of old computer equipment was launched during a UN meeting on hazardous waste held in _________.

Kathmandu
Hong Kong
New Delhi
Singapore
Bali