Diplomacy & Crisis News

As Russian forces continue their assault, people in Ukraine face terrifying uncertainty.

In full costume and make-up, drag queen Madame Bonjour JohnJ, is teaching children that it’s ok to be different, during storytelling sessions in their native Tokyo.

Secretary-General António Guterres has announced that the UN will launch an appeal to fund its humanitarian operations in Ukraine, amid reports on Saturday of casualties and people fleeing their homes to seek safety as Russian military operations in the country intensify.

Berlin will send anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to help Kyiv fight off Russia.

Even before the recent events that “convulsed the world” last week, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator reminded that an eight-year-long conflict in Eastern Ukraine had already level three million people in need of humanitarian assistance “on both sides of the contact line”.

A UN project, in association with one of India’s leading clean energy companies, is training women salt farmers in the Indian state of Gujarat to work in the solar power industry, and build a better life.

Will Russia’s invasion make or break the relationship between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin?

Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Friday that would have demanded that Moscow immediately stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops, a move several Council members said was deplorable, but inevitable.

Russia has only sent in a third of the troops it had deployed near Ukraine.

China, India, and the United Arab Emirates abstain.

The key to victory, for every side, will be the ability to endure sacrifice.

After World War II, Japan and Germany became enduring U.S. allies. Why didn’t the Cold War end the same way?

Already at least 70,000 people have fled the country since the Russian invasion.

Perpetrators responsible for recent escalating violence in Unity state, South Sudan, must be held accountable, the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS, said in a statement on Friday. 

How to punish Putin without devastating Europe’s economy remains a challenge.

Three critical ways the crisis in Ukraine will determine the region’s future

“Concerned about providing lethal aid before the war started,” the Democratic congressman is now more “open” to helping Ukraine.

Sri Lanka has taken steps towards legal, institutional and security sector reforms, but more action is still needed, according to a report issued on Friday by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, which examines developments over the past year. 

As the Syrian war has driven poverty and hunger to levels higher than at any previous point, UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen told the Security Council on Friday that he would continue to focus on engaging the parties to bring an end to the protracted conflict. 

Officials said the talks had become an arena for Russia to complain about NATO.