Diplomacy & Crisis News

A $12 billion funding boost aims to reverse some of the Trump damage.

Scotland is in a great position to be a good global citizen.

A new VR documentary, “Reeducated,” uses illustration and witnesses to overcome secrecy.

The UN rights chief said on Tuesday that empowering women and girls to participate fully in public life is both the right and “smart thing to do”, speaking on a day that saw history being made with the first ever address to the UN by a woman Vice President of the United States. 

The UN’s top official in Yemen has warned of a “dramatic” deterioration in the country’s ongoing conflict, telling the Security Council on Tuesday that fighting has expanded on several fronts amid the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. 

The UN Secretary-General has urged corporate leaders to achieve gender equality, highlighting the benefits for the private sector and society at large. 

As relations worsen on other fronts, the Kerry-Xie relationship could make a difference on climate change.

The country’s swift fall shows that managing a pandemic is a marathon, not a sprint.

Impossible, ou presque, de vivre aux Etats-Unis sans contracter un emprunt. Dans certains quartiers défavorisés, où les banques refusent d'ouvrir des agences, les habitants doivent avoir recours aux échoppes de « prêteurs rapaces ». / États-Unis, Banque, Dette, Finance, Inégalités, Pauvreté, (...) / États-Unis, Banque, Dette, Finance, Inégalités, Pauvreté, Spéculation, Banlieue - 2015/09

Women need to be “front and centre” of the pandemic recovery as a matter of economics, efficiency, effectiveness and social resilience, the UN chief told the women’s commission on Tuesday. 

As hunger levels continue to deepen in South Sudan due to a combination of violence, climate change and COVID-19, the 2021 South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan was launched on Tuesday aiming to reach 6.6 million people – including 350,000 refugees - with life-saving assistance and protection.

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But if democracies are to stand up to Chinese coercion, they will have to join forces.

The United States and Pakistan must work together to secure the country’s future.

Although the moves are seen as precautionary, they could cause lasting damage to the global vaccine rollout.

Tehran is directly responsible for the violence carried out by its proxies and must be held accountable.

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, highlighted the risks of separating newborns from mothers, with new research showing that up to 125,000 lives could be saved by keeping them together to ensure skin-to-skin contact. 

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This week, Syria marks a grim anniversary: 10 years since the start of the country’s grinding conflict. Today, one decade into the catastrophe, about half the country’s population has been uprooted, with some 12 million people internally displaced or living as refugees.  

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday it is “deeply disturbed” that the crackdown on peaceful protesters in Myanmar “continues to intensify”, with a soaring death toll on the streets, increasingly aggressive use of lethal force, arbitrary arrests, and reports of torture in custody.