Diplomacy & Crisis News

Once teeming lakes are fast disappearing and with them, a lucrative career for tens of thousands of people in the region.

In the West African country of Ghana, many people from farming backgrounds are forced to find new ways to survive, as droughts, floods and erratic weather patterns upend age-old agricultural practices.

In Yemen, whose people are living through a long-running, brutal war, which has led to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, COVID-19 is far from being a top priority, says the top UN refugee agency (UNHCR) official in the Arabian Peninsula country.

Victime d'une tentative d'empoisonnement, l'opposant russe Alexeï Navalny se trouve aujourd'hui derrière les barreaux. Tout en appelant à sa libération, les chancelleries occidentales préparent l'adoption de nouvelles sanctions. Si le Kremlin n'entend rien céder aux pressions internationales, qu'il (...) / Russie, Géopolitique, Politique, Médias, Relations internationales, Personnalités, Corruption - 2021/03

“Quo Vadis, Aida?” could do for the Srebrenica massacre what “Schindler’s List” accomplished for the Holocaust.

The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated much of the world’s attention over the last 12 months, but many other crises will continue to require the urgent attention of the UN and the international community in 2021.

Democrats in Congress signaled they were uneasy with the move and are demanding answers from the White House.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres  received his second COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies in the Bronx,  New York, on Friday. 

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously passed a resolution calling on all Member States to support a “sustained humanitarian pause” to local conflicts, in order to allow for COVID-19 vaccinations. Briefing journalists afterwards, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus argued that more could be done. 

The holding of free and fair elections in the Occupied Palestinian Territory will help “clear the path” for restoring a legitimate political horizon to realize a long sought two-State solution, the leading UN diplomat for the region told the Security Council on Friday.

As the COVID-19 pandemic gathers pace, people worldwide are “being left behind – or pushed even further behind”, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned on Friday. 

The new U.S. president believes in the legitimacy of American power. Does the rest of the world?

One year after the world declared borders shut, there is still no plan to reduce the toll on millions of lives.

The Biden administration wants to downgrade the region. Here are the countries he can ignore—and the ones he can’t.

A long-awaited intelligence report comes as Biden reassesses the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia.

A 2-century-old Indian Chinese community is threatened by tensions between the two countries.

False realities have been part of the U.S. political scene for decades.

As the democratically elected leader of Myanmar, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is still in detention following the military takeover that triggered country-wide protests, violence and arrests, the UN envoy for the country observed on Friday, declaring that “democratic processes have been pushed aside”. 

Alors que la ministre de l'enseignement supérieur entend purger l'université de l'« islamo-gauchisme », le projet de loi « confortant le respect des principes de la République » prévoit d'instaurer un contrôle idéologique des associations. Dans cette entreprise d'élimination des pensées qui le dérangent, (...) / Histoire, France, Associations, Société civile, Droit, Justice, Défense, Violence, Mouvement de contestation, Politique, Répression, État - 2021/03

Des communistes, des anarchistes et même des militants d'extrême droite : depuis un siècle et demi, nombreux sont ceux qui revendiquent l'héritage de la Commune de Paris. Cette bataille mémorielle s'est parfois jouée sur les murs, à coups de graffitis et d'affiches, dessinant un imaginaire de (...) / France, Mouvement de contestation, Socialisme, Politique, Socialisme libertaire, Répression, Histoire, Communisme, Art, Ville - 2021/03