Diplomacy & Crisis News

Business as usual is over in the city, whether companies like it or not.

A new report from Burkina Faso shows that rising violence is taking a toll for a generation of children.

To honour the more than 3,900 women and men who have lost their lives under the UN flag since 1948, Secretary-General António Guterres laid a wreath at the Peacekeepers’ memorial on Friday, International Day of UN Peacekeepers.

Thirty countries and numerous international partners have underlined the need to make tests, treatments and other technologies to fight COVID-19, available to people everywhere.

In highly unusual move, U.S. diplomats in Uganda and Kenya issue public pronouncements expressing distress over the death of George Floyd.

The coronavirus has swept through the top ranks, leaving Mullah Omar’s son tenuously in charge.

Wall Street and Main Street are on two different planets. We asked six leading experts why.

Allegation of wrongdoing reopens war wound that has marred relations between Seoul and Tokyo.

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has welcomed steps taken by social media companies to prevent their platforms from being used to promote hatred, violence and misinformation, Spokesperson Rupert Colville said on Friday.

Conservatives have framed women’s rights rallies in March as a source of contagion, threatening to undermine the surging feminist movement.

As Beijing flexes its muscle from Hong Kong to Ladakh, the U.S. government must decide how to respond.

Depuis vingt ans, les néolibéraux ont cherché à « prolétariser » leur identité en multipliant discours et dispositions sécuritaires. La médiatisation de leur lutte, présumée populaire, contre les « barbares » a coïncidé avec la généralisation, plus discrète, de mesures économiques favorables aux possédants. / (...) / Idées, Idéologie, Intellectuels, Libéralisme - 2003/01 Ce siècle aura trois ans

Shocked over the killing last weekend of five men in Nepal, who had planned to escort home one of their girlfriends from a higher caste, the UN human rights chief on Friday stressed that ending caste-based discrimination is “fundamental” to the overall sustainable development vision of leaving no one behind.

In Britain’s hierarchical culture, the crime for the upper classes isn’t telling lies—it’s getting caught.

The EU is still muddling through its post-pandemic recovery—and 18th-century history suggests that disaster could await.

Confiner la population pour la protéger du virus ? L'idée fut loin de faire l'unanimité au Texas, où certains y ont vu une atteinte aux libertés individuelles. / États-Unis (affaires intérieures), États-Unis, Armement, Industrie de l'armement, Élections, Société, Fédéralisme - (...) / États-Unis (affaires intérieures), États-Unis, Armement, Industrie de l'armement, Élections, Société, Fédéralisme - 2020/06

Tobacco products continue to kill eight million people a year who get hooked via a $9 billion a year marketing strategy. That’s the warning from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday, which has said that even during a global pandemic, the tobacco and nicotine industry has continued to promote products that limit people’s ability to fight new coronavirus and recover from the disease.

The UN human rights chief on Thursday condemned the killing of 46-year-old George Floyd while in police custody in the city of Minneapolis, calling it the latest in “a long line of killings of unarmed African Americans by US police officers and members of the public”.

Some 14 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean could experience severe food insecurity this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to projections released on Thursday by the World Food Programme (WFP).

 The global coronavirus pandemic is testing the multilateral system like never before and the Security Council must stop the “infighting”, and step up to the challenge, the European Union’s foreign policy chief told the 15-member body on Thursday.