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A United Nations-backed conference aimed at accelerating an ambitious development plan for the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) concluded today in Zambia with a global ‘Call to Action’ intended to streamline their path towards sustainable, inclusive and economic progress.

The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called for a global movement to eradicate hunger as countries look ahead to the new set of development goals that will be adopted in September.

Avec le triomphe des républicains aux législatives de 2010, les militants antiavortement ont repris du poil de la bête. Leur tactique consiste à faire passer des lois restreignant le droit à l'IVG au niveau de chaque Etat, le rendant parfois quasi impossible à exercer. Dernier rempart : la Cour (...) / États-Unis, États-Unis (affaires intérieures), Droit, Femmes, Parti politique, Santé, Médecine, Droits des femmes - 2013/12

Mabrouk, Khaled, Hamza et leurs amis font partie des millions de jeunes sans emploi dont les responsables politiques et les médias parlent à longueur de journée. Le pays compte trente-huit millions d'habitants, dont 57 % ont moins de 30 ans (contre 36 % en France). / Algérie, Économie, Entreprise, (...) / Algérie, Économie, Entreprise, Exclusion sociale, Femmes, Jeunes, Travail, Chômage, Société civile - 2014/04

C'est toujours la faute à l'école… Surveillance de masse, mutations géopolitiques à l'aune de la crise russo-ukrainienne, complotisme et complots : voici une sélection d'archives en rapport avec quelques articles du numéro de juin (...) - La valise diplomatique

Group of Friends on Counter-terrorism Meeting 4 June 2015: Violent Extremism and Crisis Management

Critical aid operations supporting millions of people affected by the conflict in Iraq are at risk of shutting down unless funds are made available immediately, the United Nations official overseeing relief operations in the country warned today as she joined an international appeal for nearly $500 million to cover the immediate needs of 5.6 million Iraqis for the next six months.

The prices of major food commodities continued their downward trajectory through May as cereal prices dropped amid an increasingly favourable forecast for this year’s harvests, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) confirmed today.

Ethnic hatreds, murky disappearances, and the purging of enemies are all on the rise in Robert Mugabe's dictatorship.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today reported an increase in the intensity and geographic area of Ebola transmission in Guinea and Sierra Leone, warned that the onset of the rainy season &#8220from now onwards&#8221 will make field operations more difficult and noted that community engagement remains a challenge in both countries.

Allegations of corruption at the highest levels of FIFA has put the spotlight on the 2022 World Cup host's human rights record.

The human costs of the Saudi Arabian-led bombing campaign in Yemen are immense.

America’s point man on the Islamic State maps a way forward after the fall of Ramadi.

Renewing its support to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the vital mandate it is performing to protect civilians there, the Security Council today expressed its grave concern over the security and humanitarian situation in the country, which has been torn by “a conflict that is only growing more violent as it nears its 18th month.”

A U.S.-led probe into FIFA could cement many of the bad behaviors allowed by Sepp Blatter.

It certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed that 13 of the 14 individuals named last week in the FIFA bribery and kickback scandal represent Latin America and Caribbean soccer organizations. While no one country or region has a monopoly on corruption, it is likewise true that weak rule of law and endemic corruption issues have unfortunately been the ...

This year seems to be a year for taking stock of women's rights globally, but what does that mean for the state of women in Afghanistan?

Why it’s going to take more than a broken leg to keep the secretary of state – or the Iran deal – from moving forward.

U.S. Defense Department officials said on Wednesday that a total of 51 laboratories in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and three foreign countries have received potentially dangerous samples of anthrax from a U.S. Army lab in Dugway, Utah.

Riyadh is pushing to keep the oil taps open at Friday’s OPEC meeting. That’s a direct challenge to enemies in Tehran and Moscow, not U.S. wildcatters.