Diplomacy & Crisis News

In a cross-border humanitarian operation, a total of 31 metric tonnes of food and some non-food items have been distributed to about 15,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Banki, located in Nigeria&#39s restive Borno state, near the border with Cameroon, the United Nations relief wing announced today.

Following a request from the main international organization working to achieve a world free of chemical weapons, the United Nations Security Council today adopted a resolution authorizing the transfer of such weapons out of Libya for their safe, timely destruction.

Some 26,500 South Sudanese, mostly women and children, have crossed into Uganda since fighting between rival forces erupted in and around the capital, Juba, on 7 July, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

Wrapping up a visit to southern Africa, the United Nations deputy humanitarian chief today called for urgent action to assist millions of people across the region where local coping capacities have been impacted by the worst El Niño-induced drought in 35 years.

As the 21st International AIDS Conference wrapped up in Durban, South Africa, the Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS), Luiz Loures, called for ending discrimination against patients, especially those from the most vulnerable populations.

Concluding a six-day visit to Somalia, a United Nations child rights envoy has called for better protection of children caught up in armed conflict, urging the country&#39s authorities to treat former child soldiers as victims in need of protection rather than as criminals.

The United Nations department providing logistical support to field missions announced today the launch of a new mandatory online programme for all uniformed and civilian personnel to strengthen training on the standards of conduct, with a special focus on sexual exploitation and abuse.

Expressing deep concern over the two-year-long vacancy in the presidency of Lebanon, the United Nations Security Council today urged Lebanese leaders to urgently convene a parliamentary session and called on all parties to negotiate a compromise agreement in order to end the country&#39s political and institutional crisis.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) today wrapped up its fourteenth quadrennial conference, with delegations in Nairobi, Kenya reaching agreement on a framework that will guide the body&#39s work over the next four years, largely focused on ensuring broad achievement of the new UN Sustainable Development Agenda.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Fabrizio Hochschild of Chile as his new Deputy Special Representative for the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today denounced the killing of award-winning journalist Pavel Sheremet and urged the authorities to bring those responsible for the crime to justice.

Two United Nations agencies have issued a new technical handbook to assist humanitarian workers to address multifaceted problems related to cooking fuel for refugees and displaced people.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today signed a new partnership agreement with the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) that will further strengthen the collaboration between the two organizations in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Le candidat républicain à l'élection présidentielle américaine de novembre 2016 sera vraisemblablement moins favorable aux interventions militaires que son adversaire démocrate — une situation inédite depuis la seconde guerre mondiale. Mais la tentation du repli, qui hante la politique étrangère de M. (...) / États-Unis (affaires extérieures), Armée, Conflit, Défense, Élections, Géopolitique, Histoire, Mutation, Nationalisme, Relations internationales, Diplomatie - 2016/05

En 1915, les deux tiers des Arméniens de l'Empire ottoman, soit environ un million trois cent mille personnes, disparaissent. Depuis cent ans, toutes les minorités de Turquie payent le prix de l'impunité et des dénégations de l'Etat. / Arménie, Chypre, Grèce, Turquie, État, Génocide, Histoire, (...) / Arménie, Chypre, Grèce, Turquie, État, Génocide, Histoire, Minorité nationale, Droits des minorités, Violence - 2015/04

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A Venezuela está à beira do precipício. A ação concertada ainda pode evitar a sua queda. Mas quanto mais se atrase, mais venezuelanos morrerão por falta de medicamentos, pela má nutrição ou pela violência.

/ Afrique, Développement, Économie, Monnaie, Francophonie, Afrique de l'Ouest - Afrique / Afrique, Développement, Économie, Monnaie, Francophonie, Afrique de l'Ouest - Afrique

Attaque de rebelles indépendantistes et djihadistes, enlèvement, coups d'Etat militaire :toute la région a été déstabilisée en 2012, conséquence indirecte de l'opération franco-britannique qui avait provoqué la chute de Mouammar Khadafi. Longtemps présentée comme une démocratie modèle pour l'Afrique, le (...) / Afrique, Armée, Conflit, Défense, Islam, Migrations, Mutation, Mali, Maghreb, Afrique centrale, Afrique de l'Ouest, Afrique du Nord, Afrique de l'Est, Coup d'État, Frontières - Afrique

Tuesday’s ruling by the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea has bought a little clarity to the problems in the South China Sea, but it has not made solving the underlying problems significantly simpler.