Diplomacy & Crisis News

Almost half of women in some 57 countries do not have the power to make choices over their healthcare, contraception, or sex lives, a new United Nations report launched on Wednesday, has revealed.

Local community projects are already powering parts of London and could pave the way for a green transition.

Recent elections in Kosovo reflected a strong desire for change, the head of the UN mission there, UNMIK, said in his virtual briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday. 

Faced with alarming and extended closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s museums are of “fundamental importance” to reviving cultural life and preserving our shared heritage “in all its diversity”, said the UN cultural agency chief on Tuesday.  

This week’s attack on an Iranian enrichment facility has improved the country’s negotiating position.

The UN together with Turkey, and Qatar, announced on Tuesday that a high-level conference aimed at ending decades of conflict in Afghanistan will go ahead beginning on 24 April, bringing together representatives of both the Afghan Government and the Taliban.

Syrian government is using aid deliveries as a weapon, State Department reports.

An internationalist foreign policy needs a stronger domestic foundation.

The move will finally end the United States’ longest war.

The rights of refugees and asylum seekers who have fled Burundi for Tanzania must be respected, experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said on Tuesday in an appeal to authorities in both countries. 

The country’s rural Dalits are already exploited—and know it can get worse.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have called for countries to suspend sales of live wild mammals in traditional food markets, also known as “wet markets”, in efforts to prevent the emergence of new deadly diseases, such as COVID-19. 

The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, said on Tuesday that it will work closely with Japan which is preparing to release a million tonnes of contaminated seawater used to cool the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant.

UN-appointed independent rights experts on Tuesday condemned the killing of more than 50 people by “brutal policing methods”, linked to disputed national elections held in January.  

S'ils parviennent à empêcher une nouvelle partition de l'Ukraine, les seconds accords de Minsk, si fragiles et ambigus soient-ils, pourraient offrir une chance ultime de rénovation de l'ordre européen, en jetant les bases d'un modus vivendi avec la Russie. / Allemagne, États-Unis (affaires (...) / Allemagne, États-Unis (affaires extérieures), Europe, Europe de l'Est, France, Géorgie, Russie, Ukraine, Conflit, Géopolitique, Relations internationales, Biélorussie, Moldavie, Diplomatie, Guerre civile, Frontières - 2015/06

There’s much more evidence of the monarch’s poor governance than a foreign conspiracy against him.

Muslims need their own nationwide party, he believes. And he’s going to build it.

The ongoing repression of protests in Myanmar could spark a “full-blown conflict” on a par with Syria, the United Nations’ top human rights official warned on Tuesday, urging States with influence to take immediate and impactful action to halt the “slaughter” of civilians. 

Border tensions have increased calls from Ukraine for entry into the NATO alliance.

Loyalist fears that Boris Johnson is abandoning them have sparked a wave of violence that could endanger the Good Friday Agreement.