Les Nations unies ont présenté leurs excuses aux Haïtiens pour avoir introduit le choléra dans leur pays. Le débat porte maintenant sur le financement des compensations.
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After admitting that its peacekeepers brought the disease to the country, the organisation must make financial amends too.
States who want to keep criminalising LGBT people are trying to stop the UN from creating a way of investigating them.
The UN’s Charter legally binds it to promote gender equality, but guess what: yes, it’s a man again.
Even if the war in Syria is somehow brought to a close, prosecuting IS members for the crimes they’ve committed won’t be easy.
Lee: ‘Business will be far from usual in a world of four, five or six degrees of warming.’
Discussions at two global summits on migration in New York will do little to do what is needed to change the reality on the ground.
Separation is intended to deal with problems and provide an acceptable alternative, but history shows it may not be the solution.
Après des années de tergiversations, les Nations unies ont reconnu leur part de responsabilité dans le déclenchement de l’épidémie. Reste maintenant à assumer financièrement.
It has long been known that UN forces brought disease to the country in the aftermath of an earthquake, but how can amends be made?
You gotta have guts to succeed at Rio 2016 – and very healthy ones, at that.
Another month, another broken temperature record. Scientists are already confident 2016 will be the hottest year ever, a record only set in 2015.
Global warming is, by definition, experienced worldwide. But a new study shows that the tropics were the first places on earth where the human effect on climate outstripped normal climate variations.
Remains from a 9000-year-old victim in Brazil suggests he was beheaded, de-fleshed and had his hands amputated.
Prevalence of MS in some areas and not others have led researchers to investigate whether there’s a link between the disease and a lack of vitamin D.
This research suggests that there is one simple way to equip your children for a life of literacy from their infancy: show them picture books.
The way the UK thinks about workplaces and workers means that those learning a trade are at a disadvantage. And that’s bad news as we attempt to add 3m apprentices to the mix.
The extreme right and extreme left have found themselves united against Europe.
Parts of the UK are sizzling thanks to Iberian air.
No-one wants to run a ‘No’ campaign these days but it actually won’t make much of a difference.
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Reading
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Professor of Finance & Financial Technology, ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Lecturer in Housing Economics, University of Reading
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PhD Candidate, Pollination and Climate Change, University of Reading
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Professor of Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Mental Health, University of Reading
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Lecturer in German and Translation Studies, University of Reading
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Research Scientist in Hydrometeorology, University of Reading
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Visiting Professor of History, University of Reading / Worcester College Oxford, University of Reading
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Lecturer in Atmospheric Radiation, Composition and Climate, University of Reading
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Lecturer in Strategic Studies and International Relations, University of Reading
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Professor of Space Environment Physics, University of Reading
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Sensory and Consumer Scientist, University of Reading
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Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Meteorology, University of Reading
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Professor of Meteorology, University of Reading
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Professor of Applied Ecology, University of Reading
