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The United Nations is marking the International Day of Older Persons by encouraging countries to draw attention to and challenge negative stereotypes and misconceptions about older persons and ageing, and to enable older persons to realize their potential to build a life of dignity and human rights.

The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, expressed alarm today at public comments by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, in which he reinforced a campaign to kill millions of drug addicts in the Philippines and compared it to the massacre of millions of Jews by Hitler during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

Several weeks before of the start of the new school year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), together with the Iraqi Ministry of Education, launched a nationwide ‘Back to School’ campaign in 10 governorates.

The UN refugee agency and delegations from African countries as well as the African Union (AU) agreed today on final steps to end the protracted Rwandan refugee situation after seven years of negotiations.

There are now less than 30 doctors working in Aleppo city, down from 35 several days ago, a senior official of the United Nations health agency said today, highlighting the deteriorating healthcare capacity in the war-battered area.

The latest hack of the Democratic nominee’s campaign reveals Clinton has some misgivings about Obama’s push to modernize the nuclear arsenal.

Nine representatives of the Government of Colombia, as well as nine members from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia&#8211People&#39s Army (FARC-EP) and 18 international observers from the UN mission in the country have started working together at the joint Monitoring and Verification Mechanism headquarters in Bogota.

The United Nations health agency today urged countries across the South-East Asia region to continue to take decisive action to prevent, detect and respond to Zika virus, following news that Thailand has confirmed two cases of Zika-related microcephaly.

And the allegation that we received funding to nominate him for the award is preposterous.

Watch this video of a top U.N. official stroking a blue helmet without saying a word.

A top aide to President Joseph Kabila told FP there is no tension in Congo and that Americans should feel safe there.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will establish an internal United Nations Board of Inquiry to investigate the deadly 19 September incident involving a UN–Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) relief operation to Urum al-Kubra, a town in western Aleppo Governorate.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported that, along with its partners, the agency has completed a drive reaching more than 600,000 children under five years old and some 180,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women in conflict-torn Yemen with critical health and nutrition services.

The United Nations refugee agency today called on authorities in Ukraine to help ease the plight of some 26,000 people who cross the dividing line between Government-controlled and non-Government-controlled areas of the crisis-gripped country daily.

The legendary comedy program prepares to take on an election some are already calling farcical.

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) urged world leaders to take note of the profound implications of record-high carbon dioxide readings this month and appealed for their increased commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

As New Delhi and Islamabad trade nuclear threats and deadly attacks, a brewing war over shared water resources threatens to turn up the violence.

The government in Bogotá was winning the war. So why did it decide to give concessions to the rebels anyway?

Leftist guerillas have been trekking across Colombia for classes on Marxist economics, cultural history, and how to run for office.

En 1916, en pleine guerre mondiale, Paris et Londres négocient le démembrement de l'Empire ottoman. Un premier schéma est entériné par les diplomates François Georges-Picot et Mark Sykes. Les frontières du Proche-Orient tracées par les vainqueurs après la fin du conflit seront finalement différentes. Mais ce partage restera connu sous le nom d'« accords Sykes-Picot ». Extraits.

Dans son journal, le 11 décembre 1920, Maurice Hankey, secrétaire du gouvernement britannique, notera : « Clemenceau et Foch ont traversé [la mer] après l'armistice, et on leur a donné une grande réception militaire et publique. Lloyd George et Clemenceau ont été conduits à l'ambassade de France… Quand ils furent seuls, Clemenceau dit : “Bien. De quoi devons-nous discuter ?” “De la Mésopotamie et de la Palestine”, répondit Lloyd George. “Dites-moi ce que vous voulez”, demanda Clemenceau. “Je veux Mossoul”, dit Lloyd George. “Vous l'aurez”, a dit Clemenceau. “Rien d'autre ?” “Si, je veux aussi Jérusalem”, a continué Lloyd George. “Vous l'aurez”, a dit Clemenceau. » (…)

La division du Proche-Orient en plusieurs Etats (…) s'est opérée contre la volonté des populations et en utilisant une rhétorique libérale que le recours à la force rendait vide de sens. Par rapport à l'évolution politique de la dernière décennie ottomane, où la cooptation des notables et l'établissement d'un système électoral, certes très imparfait, avaient tracé la voie à une vraie représentation politique, l'autoritarisme franco-anglais constitue une régression durable.

En tant que découpage territorial, le partage a duré, essentiellement parce que les nouvelles capitales et leurs classes dirigeantes ont su imposer leur autorité sur le nouveau pays. Mais les événements de 1919-1920 furent ressentis comme une trahison des engagements pris (en premier lieu, du droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes). Ils dépossédèrent surtout les élites locales de leur destin. Quand le nationalisme arabe reviendra en force, il ne reconnaîtra pas la légitimité de ce découpage et appellera à la constitution d'un Etat unitaire, panacée à tous les maux de la région. Les Etats réels seront ainsi frappés d'illégitimité et durablement fragilisés. La constitution du Foyer national juif entraînera la région dans un cycle de conflits qui semble loin de se terminer. (…)

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