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1. Thalif Deen

(Contacts / Writers)

Thalif Deen

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2. Phil Harris

(Contacts / Editors and Bureau Chiefs)

... and the potential for resistance and alternatives.   Phil graduated in 1971 from the University of Aberdeen with a degree in Politics/Sociology, before taking up post-graduate studies at the University ...

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3. US Pressurizes TPNW Signatories Triggering Uncertainty About Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

(UN INSIDER)

By Thalif Deen * NEW YORK (IDN) – Responding to a question, Albert Einstein, the German-born physicist who won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics, predicted rather ominously: “I do not know with what weapons ...

Created on 01 November 2020

4. Sri Lanka Bans Cow Slaughter, But Has Yet to Pass Animal Welfare Bill

(Asia-Pacific)

... to slaughterhouses, ZamZam Foundation’s  Moulavi Amhar Hakam Deen told Daily Mirror, that it is by selling cattle that these non-Muslims earn an income. Hence, they will be badly affected if the ban comes ...

Created on 10 October 2020

5. How Pandemics Past and Present Fuel the Rise of Mega-Corporations

(OPINION)

... to write in an attempt to make sense of what they had lived through. In Aberdeen, John of Fordun, a Scottish chronicler, recorded that: This sickness befell people everywhere, but especially the middling ...

Created on 05 June 2020

6. Bernie Sanders Pushes Democratic Party to the Left

(OPINION)

... did well and indeed saved a lot of lives. But in the end Carter contradicted himself by supplying military equipment to the Mujahedeen who were fighting the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Although President ...

Created on 19 March 2020

7. Towards a Constitutional Crisis: Scotland and Britain After the General Election

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Michael Keating* ABERDEEN (IDN) – Choppy waters lie ahead for both defending and defeating the union that is the United Kingdom, with Scotland and England having diverged sharply in their ...

Created on 09 February 2020

8. UNAI Promotes Political Empowerment of Women in Sudan

(Middle East)

... – 11 October 2019] Photo: Institute Director Professor Balghis Badri with the African Union Delegation Credit: Mai Izeldeen. Original Link > Women’s political empowerment critical for a democratic, ...

Created on 11 October 2019

9. How the Kashmir Debate in India Is Being Fuelled by Falsehoods

(Asia-Pacific)

... Kashmir on June 23, 1953. The Jan Sangh stooped to present forged documents and perjured oral evidence by Nana Deshmukh before Justice Y.V. Chandrachud on the death of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya in 1968. It ...

Created on 23 August 2019

10. Many More Than Just Maritime Powder Kegs in the Gulf

(OPINION)

... Militants killed 14 people in April in an assault on an Iranian revolutionary guard convoy and in December exploded a car bomb in Chabahar. Saudi Arabia is also suspected of supporting the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, ...

Created on 14 July 2019

11. UN Fights Back but Not Immune to Cyberattacks

(UN INSIDER)

...  Talking to WebPublicaPress, veteran UN correspondent Thalif Deen said he can understand the “UN’s reluctance to reveal its security measures against hackers, but its defences may be a good try in a lost ...

Created on 15 February 2019

12. Leading Singapore NGO Supports Free Childcare for 'Low-Income Mothers

(Gender Equality)

... [IDN-InDepthNews – 16 August 2018] Photo: Rosilah Abdul Hamid (centre) with her 13 year old daughter Syafeeqah Mohd Rusdi (on the right) and 10-year old Nureen Irdeenah Mohd Rusdi (on the left). Credit: ...

Created on 17 August 2018

13. More Steps Forward on Human Rights than Backwards

(Peace & Justice)

... mujahedeen against the Soviet invaders) campaign of another U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, to put human rights at the centre of American foreign, to see this bald regression is a bitter fruit to swallow. ...

Created on 14 November 2017