... the Sunday Mail and that of Senior Editor with the Times of India and The Tribune. Furthermore, with his experience as a Senior Editor with the China Daily and the Global Times in Beijing, he has developed ...
Phil Harris, Editor, Phil is a Scottish communications researcher turned journalist and writer, who previously worked with Inter Press Service (IPS) between 1978 and 1998, and between 2014 and 2015. Originally ...
Lotus News Features, Lotus News Features cover countries and communities in Asia with a set of news values that are based on "mindful" concepts and ethics emanating from Buddhist values. ...
... covering development communications, journalism with an Asian perspective, multicultural broadcasting and community media. He has also edited a number of books on communication issues. In 1987 he won a ...
International Politics and Society, International Politics and Society is a young magazine with a much older heritage. Launched in January 2017, the online journal highlights global inequality and brings ...
Global Cooperation Council, The GLOBAL COOPERATION COUNCIL (GCC) is widening its outreach beyond Germany with a view to fostering genuine international cooperation – a prerequisite of fair global governance ...
... immigrant population by far, making a confrontation with the past all the more uncomfortable and pressing, he said.
In a statement issued this week, President Macron’s office said he would create a Memories ...
... colonised.
Decolonisation is fast becoming a buzzword for those who are critically examining the practices and objectives of the international aid industry along with many other sectors. It is seen ...
... – We’re told the war is not with ordinary Tigrayans. Yet as thousands suffer and our compatriots remain silent, that’s how it feels.
As a child growing up in the then Ethiopian city of Asmara in the ...
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 ...
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – As the UN Secretary-General António Guterres has repeatedly pointed out, humanity is faced with a "defining moment", a warning that is highlighted in the 30th-anniversary ...
Compiled by EEPA
BRUSSELS (IDN) – Clashes between Ethiopia and Sudan ended, after the Ethiopian army withdrew last week away from the border. Several sources say that the Ethiopian National Defence Forces ...
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*
LUND, Sweden (IDN) – We are waiting. Waiting for a quick decision on whether the US will renew its agreement with Russia to extend the New Start Treaty, that cuts the long-range ...
... with the Ethiopian government and plans to prepare a team to verify reported rights abuses as soon as possible.
UK House of Lords member David Alton sends a report to UK Government Ministers which warns ...
... es Salaam will attest, the tasty beverage is probably the best money can buy.
Perched at the posh Oyster Bay neighbourhood with lush vegetation – the restaurant, which boasts a tacky décor and grandiose ...
... of COVID-19, terrorism, crime and kidnapping are said to endanger visitors to that country.
“Terrorists may conduct attacks anywhere with little or no warning,” the State Dept warned. “Targets could ...
By Caroline Mwanga
NEW YORK (IDN) – United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), launched in 2010 as an initiative to align colleges and universities with the work of the United Nations, celebrated its 10th ...
By Kalinga Seneviratne
SYDNEY (IDN) – The government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been closely aligned with that of the US President Donald Trump on climate change and policy towards China. But, ...
... Academic Impact (UNAI) speaks with Indigenous academics and activists to learn how the global Indigenous community’s contributions are building a healthier and more sustainable future for us all.
To ...
... vaccine to protect against the virus. With cases exceeding 32 million, and more than a million dead, the world economy has taken a bigger hit than at any other time since the end of the Great Depression ...
... system was dismantled with extraordinary success. Margaret Thatcher, alongside Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, had an important part to play. Yet all she saw was danger.
A month after the incredible ...
... with the countries of the (Indo-Pacific) region, be it to strengthen the rule of law and human rights” and that the “security-policy sector plays a special role in this context.” The emphasis on human ...
... D.C. (IDN) – The Trump administration has softened its demand that China immediately participate in trilateral nuclear arms control talks with the United States and Russia and says it is now seeking an ...
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Both FAO and WFP have been responding to the crisis in Burkina Faso by providing food assistance coupled with livelihood protection and support for displaced people and the host communities that receive ...
... advocacy organization I work for, AIDS-Free World, has asked UN Women to stand up to colorism by severing its public-private partnership with Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational that produces Fair ...
... (2005) Emergency Committee met and the following day asked governments to continue with and even increase their work of educating their populations to be vigilant with the basic WHO rules (to wear masks, ...
... Buhari.
ABUJA (IDN) – Many wished they were allowed to capture the moment with the camera, but the literary amazon from Borno beheld a different picture in the officially restricted space. She saw politics ...
... to attack the only body we have for global cooperation endangers everyone. That is why the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) is dangerous not only for the United States, but for ...
... of discrimination. Kant famously writes in the Conclusion to his Critique of Practical Reason (1788): “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence… The starry heavens ...
Viewpoint by Usha M Rodrigues, Deakin University
VICTORIA, Australia (IDN) – India is now the third most impacted country by COVID-19, with cases nearing 900,000 and deaths surpassing 23,000 as of July ...
... by the big money of rich donors together with the Republican gerrymandering of voting districts plus the unfair weight given to less-densely populated states (mostly Republican) in the Senate plus the ...
... the United Nations' #CopingWithCOVID webinar series on July 15 (livestream at bit.ly/CwCOVID9).
During this session — focused on young people’s mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic — the Envoy ...
News briefs compiled by Suresh Jaura*
TORONTO | NEW DELHI (IDN) – Though India became a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council on June 17, with undisputed support from all countries ...
... are some issues the Indian news media has been highlighting in the first two weeks of June. These and many more are linked to India. The subcontinent's ties with Afghanistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka also draw ...
... to identify the source of the Nile.
Other colonial administrators with streets named in their honour include Henry Johnston, Henry Edward Colville and Frederick Lugard, plus those dedicated to the ...
... of drafting the legislation. The result of the multi-level discussion was a change in the initially laid down provisions aimed to further liberalization.
The law is fully consistent with Article 21 of ...
A Grassroots Movement of Local Actions Has Been Credited for Success.
Viewpoint by Dan Sanchez
The writer is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor of ...
... Scott Morrison emphasised that in subsequent media briefings and he led a campaign with the support of the European Union (EU) to press the World Health Assembly (WHA) to trigger an independent probe. ...
... with Africa. European and Western media brands, such as British Broadcasting Corporation, Cable News Network, Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Press, Quartz and Bloomberg, are active with their ...
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – With support from UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations specialized agency for information ((ITU) are set to work with telecommunication companies ...
... of the president of the U.S. to order a halt of funding to WHO.” He added that "WHO is reviewing the impact on our work of any withdrawal of U.S. funding and will work with our partners to fill any financial ...
... might be in the coming weeks and months is an understatement."
Once a borrower from wealthy countries and institutions, Africa is now saddled with crushing debts to China ($143 billion), international ...
... changes in other parameters of Iran's nuclear programme, with enrichment levels not exceeding 4.5%. The JCPOA limits Iran's enrichment to 3.67%," adds Jane's Defence Weekly.
The JCPOA includes Iran's own ...
... to the mast. Despite being a liberal on many issues and the leader of the fight to impeach President Donald Trump, she has joined forces with Trump in preaching that the West must not allow itself to be ...
By Radwan Jakeem
NEW YORK (IDN) – With the international community persistently striving for a world free of nuclear weapons, verification systems and methods are crucial to understanding the complex ...
... The previously small left-wing republican party, with historic links to the paramilitary Provisional Irish Republican Army, now has legitimate ambitions to form part of the next Irish government in coalition ...
... Treaty without any preconditions,” Lavrov reiterated during a January 17 news conference.
Signed in 2010, New START caps the U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals at 1,550 deployed warheads, 700 ...
By Kester Kenn Klomegah
MOSCOW (IDN) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen to deepen and strengthen relations with the former Soviet republics, particularly those which initially formed the Commonwealth ...
... a Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by partnering with the UN to address challenges that transcend country borders. The UN Resident Coordinator (RC) is the highest-ranking representative ...
... you think of that, Watson?” cried Holmes, in high glee, rubbing his hands together with satisfaction. “Don’t you think that is an admirable sentiment?”
That was written 1901. In 2019 we are still furiously ...
By Tim Gaynor and Matthew Mpoke Bigg, UNHCR
GENEVA (IDN) – A historic meeting in Geneva wrapped up on December 18 with wide-ranging and substantial commitments to help millions of refugees and the communities ...
... to be accelerated and scaled up urgently.
Assessed contributions to finance ‘peace with nature’ (PwN) operations could inspire the necessary steps towards climate change mitigation and adaptation. They ...
... antiretroviral drug which, he said, should drastically reduce the number of people living with HIV.
The roll-out could start as soon as this month. A modified three-in-one pill was hailed as a ‘game-changer’, ...
... Ethiopia are both priority countries for the German Federal Government's "Compact with Africa" and the UNIDO Programme for Country Partnership (PCP) countries.
Germany just recently organized a large investor’s ...
... to the 12th International Meeting of Justice Ministers, on 29 November in Rome. The meeting focussed on ‘Paving the Way: Defeating Hatred for a World Without Death Penalty’. Mr. Dieng is former board member ...
... – the smallest nation in mainland Africa – came to the defense of the persecuted minority, filing a lawsuit with the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the ...