Diplomacy & Crisis News

A new foundation launched on Wednesday will generate funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners by tapping non-traditional sources, including the public.

Innocent civilians trapped in violence now face “a new and deadly threat” from COVID-19, the UN chief told the Security Council on Wednesday, warning that the pandemic is “amplifying and exploiting the fragilities of our world”.

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The UN refugee and migration agencies have welcomed $2.79 billion pledged by donors at a solidarity conference aimed at supporting Venezuelans who fled the protracted crisis in their country for host communities across the region. 

Further evidence of the unprecedented impact of COVID-19 on the global job market has emerged in a new study by the UN labour agency, which on Wednesday said that more than one in six young people have stopped working since the onset of the pandemic.

Independent UN human rights experts fear that some authorities in the United States are using the COVID-19 pandemic to restrict access to abortion, with at least eight states suspending procedures deemed medically unnecessary.

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Millions of people around the world have been working remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic and now experts are asking whether this “business as unusual” could be the future of work, at least for those people whose job doesn’t require them to be tied to a particular location.

Dans la perspective de l'élection présidentielle de 2012, programmes et petites phrases seront disséqués par les commentateurs politiques. Mais ceux-ci seront moins diserts sur l'abstention, qui perturbe le fonctionnement du système représentatif. / France, Élections, État, Identité culturelle, Parti (...) / France, Élections, État, Identité culturelle, Parti politique, Politique, Société - 2011/09

Humanitarian aid projects to war-torn Yemen are reaching breaking point, and some $870 million is needed to continue giving life-saving assistance to millions of vulnerable people for the next six months, the World Food Programme (WFP), warned on Tuesday.

Perchées sur le fil de la dette, les économies occidentales flageolent de crise en crise. Depuis trois ans, les responsables politiques ont endossé le rôle de voiture-balai de la finance. Mais une autre piste s'ouvre, suscitant déjà craintes et controverses : qui a peur de la démondialisation ? / (...) / Chine, États-Unis (affaires extérieures), Europe, Capitalisme, Commerce international, Économie, Finance, Mondialisation, Relations internationales - 2011/08

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in East Africa, the UN Human Rights regional office, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been contributing to the COVID-19 response of UN country teams in the region, by ensuring that human rights protection for vulnerable people is included in their plans. The head of the office, Nwanneakolam Vwede-Obahor, shared some of the challenges she and her colleagues are facing.

In Malawi, where children with albinism face attacks, and even ritual killings, going to school can expose them to life-threatening dangers. The UN is helping to make schools safer for these vulnerable students. 

For the first time, the UN Military Gender Advocate award has been awarded to two UN peacekeepers: Commander Carla Monteiro de Castro Araujo, a Brazilian Naval officer, and Major Suman Gawani, of the Indian Army.

Ecrire pour qui et dans quelle langue ? Les auteurs des pays du tiers-monde, de tradition orale, tentent de répondre, mais souvent dans le tourment, à cette question universelle. Ecrire exige de rencontrer un lecteur, mais ce dernier reste improbable dans des nations émergeant de la longue nuit (...) / Colonialisme, Identité culturelle, Langue, Littérature - 1996/09

Pour la petite histoire d'abord : ainsi les éditeurs se sont décidés à publier les Versets sataniques de Salman Rushdie ; ils l'ont fait au bout de quelques jours, ils avaient le droit d'hésiter, l'affaire était grave et non sans danger pour leur personnel et leurs biens. Bravo. Le récent manifeste, (...) / Laïcité, Fondamentalisme - 1989/03

A master practitioner of the Hawaiian hula dance has told UN News that he is “nothing without my culture.”

School children in Mozambique are facing what a senior United Nations and World Bank official in the southern African country are calling “catastrophic outcomes” from the COVID-19 pandemic. By the UN Resident Coordinator in Mozambique, Myrta Kaulard, and Mark Lundell, World Bank Country Director.

African countries have “demonstrated commendable leadership” battling the COVID-19 pandemic, but more nations across the continent where conflict prevails, should heed the UN call for a global ceasefire to push back the deadly virus, said the Secretary-General on Monday.

Costa Rica is winning plaudits for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alice Shackleford, UN Resident Coordinator in Costa Rica, and WHO Representative María Dolores Pérez-Rosales, explain why the small Central American country is managing to keep the number of cases down, and its population healthy.