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By Simone Galimberti*
KATHMANDU, Nepal, 9 June 2023 (IDN) — A little more than an year ago the international community gathered in Durban, South Africa to chalk out a way forward in the fight against child labour.
The gathering, officially the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, did indeed provide a roadmap, a comprehensive response on this plague but that alone won’t be enough.
By Jaya Ramachandran
GENEVA, 9 June 2023 (IDN) —The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) intend to build stronger and more resilient health systems.
With this in view, they signed a new and revised Strategic Framework for Collaboration on June 8. It aims at maximizing collaboration and impact in support of country, regional and global responses to major communicable diseases.
Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf
This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission.
BONN, Germany, 8 June 2023 (IDN) — North Korea has continued to advance its nuclear weapons program and has launched more than 100 missiles since the beginning of 2022, some with intercontinental range. In South Korea, this is causing unrest and fears of an attack from the North. The government and a large majority of the population are uncertain about the credibility of US protection. According to polls, more than 70 percent of South Koreans are in favour of their own nuclear armament.
By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN, 7 June 2023 (IDN) — Over 400 significant anti-government protests have erupted worldwide since 2017. More than 132 countries were directly affected. Of these, 135 were significant economic anti-government protests. 23 percent of major protests lasted more than three months, according to the Global Protest Tracker of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace last updated on May 5, 2023.
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, 7 June 2023 (IDN) — The death toll from military conflicts worldwide is frighteningly high—over 237,000 battle-related deaths in 2022 alone, mostly from the wars in Ukraine and Ethiopia.
The war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region accounted for over 100,000 battle-related deaths in 2022, even more than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which accounted for more than 81,000 deaths, according to new conflict trends data released June 7 by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
By Jeffrey D. Sachs*
This article was published in Common Dreams and is being republished with the author's permission.
NEW YORK, 6 June 2023 (IDN) — President John F. Kennedy was one of the world’s great peacemakers. He led a peaceful solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis and then successfully negotiated the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union at the very height of the Cold War. At the time of his assassination, he was taking steps to end US involvement in Vietnam.
By Jonathan Power*
LUND, Sweden, 6 June 2023 (IDN) — There are questions that even today the historians don’t seem moved to investigate. Two important ones come to mind. Why was it that Pharaonic Egypt never went to war for hundreds of years until Ramesses 11 became pharaoh in 1303 BC? Isn’t it a fact that Jews in Europe were unmolested for most of the first millennium after the death of Jesus?
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK, 5 June 2023 (IDN) — "We are living in a time of extraordinary nuclear dangers, with all the nuclear-armed states qualitatively, and in some cases quantitatively, modernizing their nuclear arsenals", observes the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) and calls for "urgent action to avoid nuclear war, resolve the Ukraine Conflict, lower tensions with China, and redirect military spending to meet human needs".
Growing importance of NWFZs
Viewpoint by Dr. J. Enkhsaikhan
The writer is Chairman of Blue Banner NGO and Former Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations
ULAANBAATAR, 5 June 2023 (IDN) — Nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) are important and practical regional measures of non-nuclear-weapon states (NNWSs) in promoting the goals of nuclear non-proliferation and strengthening confidence among states.
By Bernhard Schell*
CAIRO, 4 June 2023 (IDN) — Climate change has severely affected agriculture sector in the Western Asian country Yemen, which employs a large number of workers and produces the majority of the country's food.
A weak and fragile economy was further damaged by the country's eight-year conflict, leaving large swathes of the population food insecure.
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