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"The Cotonou Agreement remains unique in the world, and whatever form the next partnership takes, it will have to be tailored to today's world, and include wider civil society participation and stronger parliamentary oversight and diplomacy », said Michèle RIVASI (Greens/EFA, FR), EU Co-President ad interim of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) meeting in Windhoek, Namibia, for its 31st session.

With a multitude of conflicts and crises causing record displacement around the world, resettlement has become an increasingly vital part of UNHCR’s efforts to find solutions and advocate for fairer responsibility-sharing for refugees, a UNHCR report released on 13 June at an annual meeting in Geneva says.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned an attack that occurred early morning in Orlando, Florida, in which 50 people were killed and dozens more were injured, on 12 June.

Participants at OSCE's Alumni meeting addressing current security challenges and ways to promote youth participation in the development of a comprehensive security policy for Bosnia and HHerzegovina, Neum 12 June 2016.

While media reports about President Barack Obama’s speech in Hiroshima may have noted that Obama did not apologize for the United States having dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, none of those reports came close to accurately covering what he actually said there.

Nonviolent Peaceforce has been facilitating reunification of families separated by conflict in South Sudan. Here a family is reunited in a Protection of Civilians (POC) site in Juba after over two years apart.

113 UK service personnel have been granted state honours by UK Queen in the annual birthday honours list.

An U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber, deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., takes off March 27, 2016, in the U.S. Pacific Command area of operations.

The final public consultations on the content of the new National Action Plan (NAP) for the implementation of the UN SCR 1325 – Women, Peace and Security (2016-2020) was held on 10 June 2016 in Belgrade at the premises of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.