... School of Journalism. She has nearly two decades of experience as a writer and editor covering development, environment and human rights issues at the Inter Press Service United Nations bureau in New York, ...
Jonathan Power, Jonathan Power is British and grew up in Oldham and Liverpool. He is a journalist, filmmaker and writer who is best known for his weekly column on foreign affairs that ran in the International ...
Inge Missmahl, From dancer to humanitarian by way of analytical psychology, Inge Missmahl's unusual life trajectory led her to Kabul in 2004, where she saw that more than 60 percent of the population were ...
... and culture of peace as well as a platform for dialogue, it facilitates -- within the framework of HumAN Development Services -- HANDS - an exchange of ideas and practical experiences.
The GLOBAL COOPERATION ...
By Kwame Buist
NEW YORK (IDN) – The process of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic offers the chance to change course and put humanity on a path which is not in conflict with nature, UN Secretary-General ...
... of silence and begin the healing process. “We keep our doors open for those who want to gather and a safe space to do so,” says Elman, winner of the 2020 German Africa prize for humanitarian work in her ...
Viewpoint by Champa Patel*
LONDON (IDN) – Southeast Asia already had a poor human rights record before the COVID-19 outbreak. Despite ASEAN’s rhetoric on democratic values and human rights, illiberal ...
Viewpoint by John Scales Avery*
COPENHAGEN (IDN) – According to a recent United Nations report, more than a million species of plants and animals are currently threatened with extinction because of human ...
By Maxwell Matewere
A Malawian crime prevention expert with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Maxwell Matewere, has been active in the anti-human trafficking field for more than two decades. ...
... work, in what the UNODC has called an "under-reported, global form of human trafficking".
“This is the first publication that looks at the issue globally and through the lens of the international, legal ...
... repel immigrants. Laws have been introduced to protect ‘family values’: marriage is defined as solely between a man and a woman; human life begins at the moment of conception; large families get mortgage ...
... for the market or subsistence? The distress that women and informal sector workers are enduring can be vindicated if binaries in society and economy can be blurred towards a more humane world that is not ...
... gone to the ICC to charge Bolsonaro with crimes against humanity.
Brazil’s leading newspaper—Folha de S. Paulo—writes of the chaos in the country: “the main reason for the tragedy is Jair Bolsonaro.” ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown have made things very difficult for me as I work on the ground with people and communities, but I live alone.
I became a human rights activist after my son, ...
Viewpoint by Franziska Korn, Friedich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)*
BERLIN (IDN) – For over half a decade, the German government has been working to enact mandatory compliance for companies regarding human rights ...
Viewpoint by John Scales Avery*
COPENHAGEN (IDN) – What is human nature? Are we humans good or evil? To what extent is the character of a person produced by heredity, and to what extent by environment? ...
News briefs compiled by Suresh Jaura*
TORONTO | NEW DELHI (IDN) – The focus of news in Indian media in the second half of June was on the start of human trials by India's 'first' indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – A world court designed to investigate allegations of human rights violations has found itself in the crosshairs of the President of the United ...
By Kalinga Seneviratne
SYDNEY (IDN) – "The United States (US) has always taken pride in calling itself the 'Land of the Free' and appointed itself to be the global cop to punish others who violate human ...
(Forests, desertification, land degradation & biodiversity)
... Species since 2010.
BERLIN | LONDON (IDN) – The fact that ecosystems and human health intersect has been repeatedly emphasized by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. "As we encroach on nature and ...
... contagiousness and mortality of SARS-CoV-2. This year’s virus arrived in societies transformed by the human current within globalisation.
For over fifty years, the authorities in government, media and ...
... A hitherto unknown manifestation of humanity, ‘teenagers’, heralded the arrival of a distinct generation. Scottish political theorist and academic Tom Nairn captured the heady confidence it gave us of ...
... News
LONDON (IDN) – The word ‘globalisation’ has different meanings. In the broadest sense of ‘the interconnectedness of humanity’ it began when early homo-sapiens in Asia reconnected with the first ...
... “makes us refocus on the human aspect. It becomes clear that the economy no longer has primacy. When it comes to our humanity, women and men, but also the ecosystems in which they live, and therefore the ...
... in essential work.
About one in eight of all nurses globally, for example, is practising in a country different from where they were born.
The COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity to reimagine human mobility. ...
By UN News
NEW YORK (IDN) – Our shared vulnerability to the coronavirus pandemic reveals “our common humanity”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told religious leaders in an online meeting to discuss ...
... of emerging infectious diseases worldwide are exchanged between humans and wild animals. Think of West Nile, Lyme, Ebola, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), ...
That's Why We Need Wickileaks and Julian Assange Should Be Exonerated.
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power
LUND, Sweden (IDN) – Julian Assange of Wickileaks languishes in a British jail during a too-long wait ...
... protect their right to freedom of information.
Ensuring humanitarian support to millions
Humanitarian actors are gearing up to find solutions for vulnerable communities hardest-hit by the ongoing COVID-19 ...
By J W Jackie
RENO, Nevada, USA (IDN) – Facebook and Google play an important role in the lives of people across the globe – too big a role, according to Amnesty International. The pro-human rights organization ...
By Kalinga Seneviratne
SINGAPORE (IDN) — Sri Lanka's Minister of Foreign Relations, Dinesh Gunawardena, has officially withdrawn from the co-sponsorship of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution ...
... child strapped on her back, she explained that her two older children had died of starvation in the bush.
Ms. Musa's predicament represents the face of the worsening humanitarian situation in the Lake ...
... The World Report 2020: Human Rights Trends Around the Globe focusing on China and presented at the UN affirms that Mr. Guterres does not want to offend the countries that HRW calls grave human rights abusers. ...
By Fabíola Ortiz
MADRID (IDN) – The youth and human rights activists have been emphasizing since the start of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) on December 2 the pressing need of placing people ...
... nearly 168 million – or one person in 45 on the planet – to seek humanitarian assistance and protection next year in crises spanning more than 50 countries. Also, millions of children across the globe ...
By Kwame Buist
ROME (IDN) – Almost daily violent attacks in the Sahel nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have displaced nearly one million people and caused emergency levels of malnutrition, the ...
By Sean Buchanan
NEW YORK (IDN) – The experts who fan out across the world to research, hold consultations and gather information on a vast range of human rights violations often find themselves caught ...
... the actions of Turkish-backed Syrian militias has raised in a dramatic way the issue of respect of international humanitarian law. Regular military personnel of all countries are theoretically informed ...
... exacerbate the vulnerabilities and desperation that enable trafficking to flourish,” Guterres said, adding: “Human trafficking is a heinous crime that affects every region of the world.”
Traffickers ...
... the narrative and transform the future for Africa, its young people and our world."
Displacement a ‘significant loss of human potential’
Bience Gawanas, the UN’s Special Adviser on Africa, whose office ...
... and omnicidal arsenals and pressures building for nuclear weapons proliferation, these expectations were not exceeded. As the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has warned, humanity is now as close to nuclear ...
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Yet, understandably, EU countries insist that in return for helping to re-build Syria the government must commit itself to a human rights agenda – the freeing of political prisoners, the end of torture ...
... strides, according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
While the Human Rights Council was the “epicentre” for dialogue and cooperation on all human rights issues such as civil, political, economic, ...
... Feb. 7, 1986 to exile in France on a U.S. Air Force cargo plane. It was the beginning of five years of popular tumult.
The violent unrest is beginning to take a humanitarian toll as protesters clash ...
... fearing that they would be captured and tortured for ransom by human traffickers – again.
Libya is not the EU’s only new border. The EU is cooperating with regimes such as that of Sudan and Eritrea, ...
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – In view of the increasingly critical situation for ordinary Venezuelans, the United Nations remains committed to providing humanitarian support, based on “need, and need ...
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ROME (IDN) – Some years ago, Riccardo Petrella, an Italian economist, political scientist and a leading figure in the anti-globalisation movement, wrote a book entitled Au nom de l'humanité – L'audace ...
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power
LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Many know about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat in Budapest, who led his embassy in a successful attempt to issue “protective passports” to ...
... But he does not, for example, learn from mistakes, which all other animals do. Today, 70 years after its adoption, we are celebrating the Declaration of Human Rights, but we are recreating all the conditions ...
By Katsuhiro Asagiri
TOKYO (IDN) – When the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in Paris on December 10, 1948, it came up with a milestone document in the history ...
... Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden and currently interning at the High Atlas Foundation.
MARRAKECH (IDN) – December 2018 is gearing up to be a pivotal month for migration on the world stage, and ...
... accompanied the colonizers. Today, when U.S. or NATO missiles rain on countries, Western human rights organisations and their activists follow them, with their media in tow. They also have a similar mindset: ...
... must be abolished.
JA: Humanity and the biosphere are threatened by the danger of an all-destroying thermonuclear war. It could occur through a technical or human failure, or through uncontrollable escalation ...
By Aleksandra Gadzinski
KATOWICE (IDN) – Independent experts of the UN Human Rights Council, are calling on States to fully integrate human rights standards and principles in the rules for implementing ...