Diplomacy & Crisis News

A joint report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has found that the conflict in Yemen has resulted in the displacement of some 3,154,572 people.

(Own report) - In view of the Duma elections in Russia, the German foreign policy establishment is discussing Russia's future foreign policy and appropriate western reactions. This discussion is deemed necessary, given the fact that the institutions analyzing foreign policy had failed to foresee Russian initiatives both in the Ukrainian conflict and the Syrian war, according to a study by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). The SWP analysis indicates that politicians and experts were taken in by their own propaganda and their "stereotyping" interpretations "blinded" them to actual developments. In his contribution to the discussion, a well-known Russian expert wrote that, for the time being, Moscow as well as the western powers will most likely continue a confrontational foreign policy, because it is in their respective interests. With this policy, both sides would seek to consolidate their alliances and overcome the growing divisions within their own societies. In the West, this can be seen in the mantra-like "mention of Putin in the establishment parties' elections and other campaigns."

Archétype du prédateur de marchés publics, le géant du bâtiment Vinci joue sur deux tableaux pour engranger les profits : le rapide retour sur investissement de son activité de construction et les rentes de gestion à long terme. / Afrique, France, Maroc, Russie, Entreprise, Multinationales, Nucléaire (...) / Afrique, France, Maroc, Russie, Entreprise, Multinationales, Nucléaire civil, Transports, Urbanisme, Niger, Qatar, Privatisation, Corruption - 2016/03

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned yesterday&#39s terrorist attack on a wedding party in the Turkish city of Gaziantep &#8211 an act that was reportedly carried out by a suicide bomber and killed at least 50 people and wounded dozens of others.

Le sud-est des hauts plateaux algériens connaît un développement spectaculaire de la culture de tomates sous serres. Obéissant à une logique de profit à court terme, cette production permet d'alimenter les marchés d'un pays longtemps éprouvé par les pénuries. Mais elle met en danger les palmeraies et (...) / Algérie, Agriculture, Agroalimentaire, Alimentation, Commerce international, Eau, Pauvreté, Sécheresse, Travail, Sahara, Environnement, Pollution - 2016/05

Aux Etats-Unis, même les pauvres peuvent devenir propriétaires : il leur suffit d'acheter un mobile home, pour un prix qui dépasse à peine celui d'une voiture, puis de lui trouver un terrain. C'est alors que les difficultés commencent… / États-Unis, États-Unis (affaires intérieures), Droit, Exclusion (...) / États-Unis, États-Unis (affaires intérieures), Droit, Exclusion sociale, Intégration sociale, Logement, Pauvreté, Société, Urbanisme, Ville, Banlieue, Société civile - 2016/02

A senior United Nations official today expressed a deep concern about the deteriorating health of a Palestinian detainee on hunger strike for more than two months in protest of his detention after completing a 14.5-year prison sentence.

The United Nations human rights arm today expressed concern about the mounting constraints on the democratic space in Thailand – calling for a prompt return to civilian rule.

The heart breaking photograph of Omran Daqneesh, the little boy sitting alone in an ambulance with his face and body covered in blood and dirt after being pulled from a destroyed building has reminded the world, yet again, of the unimaginable horrors that Syrian children face every day, a spokesperson for the United Nations Children&#39s Fund (UNICEF) said today.

With at least eight human rights defenders killed in Honduras this year, United Nations and international rights experts today said the country is one of the most hostile and dangerous for rights defenders and urged the Government to take urgent steps to ensure their protection.

Voicing concern over serious human rights violations in the Oromia and Amhara regions of Ethiopia earlier this month, the United Nations human rights chief today urged the Government to ensure access for independent observers to affected areas and to work towards opening up political and democratic reforms.

Earlier today, the spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke about how the UN system is actively working to develop a package that would provide material assistance and support to those Haitians most directly affected by the outbreak of cholera in the Caribbean nation.

L'Amérique est entrée en guerre contre l'Allemagne en avril 1917, aux côtés du Royaume-Uni et de la France. Et, comme le raconte le journaliste Erik Kirschbaum dans son livre « Burning Beethoven », la mobilisation se double d'une croisade contre les Américains d'ascendance allemande, supposés (...) / Allemagne, États-Unis, Conflit, Exclusion sociale, Histoire, Immigrés, Migrations, Racisme, Violence, Répression - 2016/04

(Own report) - The Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras has announced a new initiative to force Germany to pay reparations and compensations to Greece. During a memorial service for the victims of a massacre committed by the German Wehrmacht in the western Greek village of Kommeno, on Tuesday, Tsipras declared that, should the Germany government persist in refusing to pay reparations, Athens will seek "through diplomatic channels - and if necessary at the judicial level - " to take action against Berlin. In early September, the Greek parliament is scheduled to discuss a recently completed report quantifying the German reparations debt at 269 billion Euros. German government assertions that the reparations issue has been "closed" are unfounded. In fact, payment of the binding 1946 reparations sum, recognized by the London Debt Agreement of February 1953, had been deferred, but not annulled. Only a fraction of it has been paid. As confirmed by Horst Teltschik, former advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Bonn had sought to evade its reparations obligations by explicitly not qualifying the 2 + 4 Treaty a "Peace Treaty." It had been feared that, with a peace treaty, suddenly "reparations demands from over 50 countries would land on the table," Teltschik explained.

Entre l'été 2014 et l'hiver 2015-2016, le prix du baril de pétrole a été divisé par trois. Plus de 250 000 emplois ont été supprimés dans un secteur qui a dû renoncer à de très gros investissements, ou les différer. Cette secousse planétaire affaiblit les géants de l'industrie pétrolière et bouleverse le (...) / Arabie saoudite, États-Unis, Iran, Nigeria, Proche-Orient, Russie, Venezuela, Commerce international, Dette, Économie, Énergie, Entreprise, État, Géopolitique, Industrie, Mouvement de contestation, Multinationales, Pétrole, Politique, Protection sociale, Technologie, Travail, Climat, Chômage, Crise économique - 2016/04

Les minerais qui entrent dans la fabrication des téléphones portables sont souvent extraits au mépris des droits sociaux. Sans compter les dégâts causés à l'environnement. Une entreprise a donc tenté de créer un « téléphone équitable ». Mais elle se heurte, entre autres, au marché noir et aux lacunes de la (...) / Chine, République démocratique du Congo, Commerce international, Conflit, Économie, Industrie, Mondialisation, Relations Nord-Sud, ONG, Technologies de l'information, Travail, Matières premières, Environnement - 2016/03

Al Qaeda wasn’t about to take ISIS’s defection from its ranks lying down. In Part III of an exclusive series, an Islamic State insider describes the events that led to civil war within the anti-Assad ranks.

The U.N. Isn’t Done With Saudi; Assad’s Chemical Stockpiles; And Lots More

Ban Ki-moon is threatening to put Riyadh and its allies back on a blacklist of countries that kill and maim children in war zones.

The ghost of Richard Nixon is back. And he’s mad as hell about the former secretaries of state and the Washington establishment.