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En Ukraine, depuis 2022, autorités, institutions internationales et ONG travaillent d'arrache-pied pour identifier et rapatrier plus de 20 000 enfants déportés de force par la Russie. La justice internationale est en marche : c'est pour ce crime de déportation que Vladimir Poutine et sa commissaire aux Droits des enfants, Maria Lvova Belova, sont recherchés par la cour pénale internationale. En attendant un jugement, les Ukrainiens se mobilisent pour le retour des leurs.

The next ordinary meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights is scheduled to take place on 22-23 June 2026 in Brussels.

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L'Église orthodoxe serbe va créer une nouvelle Université de Saint-Sava, avec le soutien de l'État. Le statut de cet établissement - public ou privé ? - est incertain, mais le projet manifeste surtout le soutien politique de la hiérarchie orthodoxe au régime d'Aleksandar Vučić.

- Le fil de l'Info / Serbie, orthodoxie, Vucic, Courrier des Balkans, Culture et éducation, Religions

L'Église orthodoxe serbe va créer une nouvelle Université de Saint-Sava, avec le soutien de l'État. Le statut de cet établissement - public ou privé ? - est incertain, mais le projet manifeste surtout le soutien politique de la hiérarchie orthodoxe au régime d'Aleksandar Vučić.

- Le fil de l'Info / Serbie, orthodoxie, Vucic, Courrier des Balkans, Culture et éducation, Religions

Désireuse de ne pas laisser les « jeux tactiques » prendre le pas sur le fond, l’ancienne première ministre, invitée dimanche du « Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-M6-Public Sénat », souhaite faire entendre sa voix à travers sa structure, baptisée « Bâtissons ensemble ».

Après une longue pause à Belgrade, les étudiants contre la corruption reprennent leurs protestations contre le régime du président Aleksandar Vucic. Ils ont appelé à une manifestation ce dimanche 10 mai après-midi sous le slogan « N'ayez pas peur, nous sommes toujours là ».

Residents in Phú Yên, Vietnam, relied on a small wooden boat during a flood. Climate change and El Niño disrupted the livelihood of millions of people in Asia and the Pacific. Credit: Pexels/Long Bà Mùi Source: ESCAP

By Kareff Rafisura
BANGKOK, Thailand, May 11 2026 (IPS)

Climate models are converging: El Niño is likely to return by mid-2026 and could be strong. According to the World Meteorological Organization, it could emerge as early as May–July 2026, with several national hydrometeorological agencies in Asia and the Pacific already issuing alerts.

El Niño makes headlines not because it is rare, but because it amplifies climate risks. Past events have triggered major humanitarian crises, driving drought, food insecurity and public health emergencies across Asia and the Pacific. While each Niño event differs, their impacts tend to follow recognizable regional patterns.

In countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Timor Leste, strong El Niño events have repeatedly brought drought, forest fires, agricultural losses and water stress, with patterns reinforced even during the weaker 2018–2019 El Niño. These impacts provide clear signals of risks concentrated across food, water, health and livelihood systems.

In practical terms, an El Niño event is only fully established when the atmosphere reinforces the warming of oceans. As not all warmings reach that stage, this is where uncertainty lies, including how strong the event will become. While forecasts will improve in the coming months, historical impacts already indicate where risks are likely to concentrate.

To understand the risks, it helps to look at how past events have unfolded in the region. Strong events in 1971–73, 1982–83 and 1997–98 triggered widespread droughts, forest fires and vector-borne diseases, such as dengue, across South and South-East Asia and the Pacific.

While impacts vary by location, the pattern is consistent: risk intensity is highest where exposure overlaps with underlying vulnerabilities caused by poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition, as well as heavy dependence on subsistence farming.

The 2015–2016 El Niño is the strongest of this century and can serve as a useful reference should current conditions develop into a comparable event, given similar early warming patterns. The joint ESCAP and ASEAN report, Ready for the Dry Years, states that during this event, more than 70% of South-East Asia’s land area experienced drought, exposing over 200 million people to severe drought at its peak.

While El Niño affects large areas, its impacts are most severe where climatic exposure overlaps with structural vulnerability. This year, these risks are unfolding in a more complex climate and socioeconomic context, with tighter fiscal space, higher debt levels and persistent global economic uncertainty, as highlighted in the ESCAP Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2026.

At the same time, remittances, an important source of income for countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka are being affected, weakening a key buffer that has historically helped households cope with shocks.

Together, these pressures leave governments and households less able to absorb climate shocks than during previous El Niño cycles.

Climate change is amplifying baseline risks. Higher temperatures increase evapotranspiration (process of heat making water evaporate faster), reduce soil moisture and intensify drought conditions. The Ready for the Dry Years report shows that droughts increasingly occur under warmer conditions, magnifying their impacts.

Climate variability is now interacting with long-term warming trends, increasing systemic risks.

The implication is clear: waiting for certainty can increase exposure to avoidable losses. Historical evidence and current signals already provide a sufficient basis for early, no-regret action.

Because the impacts of El Niño align with extremes expected to intensify under climate change, there is a strong case for investing in resilience across scenarios. Three priority areas stand out.

First, turn climate forecasts into actionable decisions on the ground. Seasonal forecasts provide valuable signals, but decisions require localized insight: where water stress will emerge, where crops are likely to fail and which communities are most at risk. Advances in satellite data and analytics now allow near-real-time monitoring of soil moisture, vegetation health and water availability, and should be used to guide targeted preparedness.

Second, early financing is a no-regret investment in resilience. The impacts of El Niño are cumulative and can outlast the event itself. Acting early through social protection, support to farmers and better water management reduces long-term costs and protects hard-won development gains. In a context of constrained fiscal space, anticipatory action limits downstream losses.

Third, strengthen coordination across sectors. El Niño affects multiple sectors simultaneously, including agriculture, water, energy and public health. Coordinated responses enable faster and more efficient actions with benefits that extend beyond a single event.

Even as uncertainty remains around the strength of the evolving event, historical experience makes a clear case for early action to strengthen long-term resilience.

Kareff Rafisura is Economic Affairs Officer, ESCAP

IPS UN Bureau

 

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DÉCRYPTAGE - L’exécutif souhaite une adoption définitive de la loi visant à légaliser l’euthanasie et le suicide assisté avant l’été. Mais le chemin paraît étroit.

Haiti leidet seit Jahrzehnten unter zahlreichen humanitären, politischen, wirtschaftlichen und sicherheitspolitischen Krisen, die einander überlagern und verheerende Folgen für die lokale Bevölkerung haben. Bisherige Stabilisierungsversuche waren kaum erfolgreich. Die 5.500 Mann starke sogenannte »Einheit zur Bekämpfung von Banden« (Gang Suppression Force, GSF) hat am 1. April 2026 die Nachfolge der von Kenia geführten Multinationalen Sicherheitsunterstützungsmission (MSS) angetreten. Es ist die zwölfte Friedens- und Stabilisierungsmission, die Haiti seit 1990 erlebt. Die GSF wird als VN-mandatierte Mission geführt und operiert vor allem mit zunächst 800 Militärkräften aus dem Tschad. Damit unternehmen die Vereinten Nationen einen gewagten Versuch, die Bekämpfung der organisierten Kriminalität zum zentralen Ansatzpunkt ihrer Missionen nach Kapitel VII der VN-Charta zu machen – und das in einer extrem komplexen politischen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Lage in Haiti.

CONTRE-POINT - Le moment décisif ne sera pas le vote en deuxième lecture mais la commission mixte paritaire (CMP) que le gouvernement convoquera après, pressé qu’il est d’aboutir.

“Access now depends on where you stand with Tehran, whether you are willing to comply with its rerouting demands, and whether you have quietly negotiated your place in the new order.”

Röviddel a rendszerváltás után, az 1990-es évek elején átalakult a hazai mezőgazdasági repülés. Az addig biztos munka és megélhetés szinte egyik napról a másikra bizonytalanná vált, a szakmában maradó pilóták és repülőgép-szerelők pedig egy újfajta kihívással szembesültek: a vállalkozói életformával. Beszélgetésünk harmadik részében ezt a nem könnyű időszakot idézzük fel László Ferenccel.

- Hogyan élted meg a Repülőgépes Szolgálat végét és a vállalkozói létbe való átmenetet?

- Már néhány évvel korábban is ment a lázadozás, hogy mi ugyanazért a tarifáért dolgozunk, mint az előző évtizedekben. Amikor a régi öregek kezdték, egy jó helyen lévő mezőgazdasági pilóta majdnem többet keresett, mint egy Malév kapitány. Aztán változtak a dolgok, a Malévnél komoly fizetések voltak, nálunk pedig megállt minden. Amikor mi kezdtünk, a körépület volt Budaörsön és egy faház. Aztán felépült az ötemeletes irodaház, és akkor mondtuk, hogy ebből baj lesz. Egy darabig még alakultak brigádok, de később már nem. Szükségmegoldásként ekkor jelentek meg a kétpilótás brigádok. Azt vettük észre, hogy az üzemeltető állomány állandó maradt, az irodaházban viszont olyan osztályok lettek, amiről addig nem is tudtunk és mindegyik tele lett. A hangárosok is látták, hogy rengeteg irodista van. A vállalati üdülőbe már nem is tudtunk menni, mert ők januárban lefoglalták a helyeket. Megvolt, hogy mennyit dolgoztunk, tudtuk, hogy mennyi a tarifa, a szorzóval felszoroztuk és gyakorlatilag megcsináltuk helyettük a saját bérszámfejtésünket. Amikor jött a számítógépes csoport, nekem mindig reklamálnom kellett, mert soha nem stimmeltek a számok. Akkora lázadás volt, hogy a TV-híradó is foglalkozott vele, de olyan nagy változások nem történtek.

[...] Bővebben!

Written by Laurence Amand-Eeckhout.

The integration of artificial intelligence into healthcare and daily life could deeply impact people’s health and wellbeing, bringing health benefits but also introducing new challenges. Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed healthcare by supporting clinicians in improving diagnostics, predicting health risks, and personalising treatments in fields such as radiology, oncology, cardiology, and rare diseases, and streamlining hospital management. It offers opportunities to make healthcare more effective, accessible for all, with better outcomes for patients and national health systems. It also supports pharmaceutical development. Beyond clinical settings, citizens use AI chatbots to obtain health information and wellness advice, although this carries risks of misinformation and over-reliance. While AI offers benefits for vulnerable groups, it also carries age-specific risks that require careful attention. For older adults, AI offers remote monitoring, assistive technologies, and companionship tools, but risks replacing rather than complementing human interaction. Young people and children using AI face serious risks including exposure to harmful content, emotional dependency, privacy violations, and reduced critical thinking. Across all age groups, excessive or poorly designed AI use is linked to anxiety, sleep disorders, sedentarism and social withdrawal. Use of AI companions can backfire, deepening isolation or even triggering mental health crises in vulnerable users. The EU AI Act and sector-specific legislation aim to govern these risks while fostering innovation. Realising AI’s health benefits ultimately requires robust human oversight, strong safeguards, and digital skills, with a commitment to keeping human connection and care at the centre, as AI cannot replace face-to-face contact and community structures.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Health and wellbeing in the age of artificial intelligence‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

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Christian Schmidt, le Haut Représentant international en Bosnie-Herzégovine, a pris la « décision personnelle » de démissionner dimanche 10 mai. Son départ était réclamé par la Republika Srpska, soutenue par Moscou, tandis que Washington voulait également se débarrasser de lui.

- Le fil de l'Info / Politique, Relations internationales, Questions européennes, RS sécession, USA Balkans, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Courrier des Balkans

Le sommet "Africa Forward", coorganisé par la France et le Kenya, s’ouvre lundi à Nairobi avec un forum économique destiné à renforcer les partenariats “gagnant-gagnant" entre la France et le continent africain. Certains acteurs de la société civile trouvent cet évènement axé sur l’économie trop restrictif. Ils étaient rassemblés dimanche lors d’un évènement en marge du sommet pour faire entendre leurs voix. 

Myanmar’s military regime wants the world to believe it is changing. It is not.

Les ministres européens des Affaires étrangères se réunissent comme tous les mois à Bruxelles ce lundi et à l’issue de leur réunion un « dialogue politique de haut niveau », le premier du genre, avec leur homologue syrien.

Following his party's worst electoral result in more than two decades, it remains to be seen if the veteran politician can mount another political comeback.