UN Women, UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their ...
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... association working to create, promote and support partnerships and exchanges among civil society organisations, local authorities and entrepreneurs throughout the world in support of economic development, ...
... in Encounter, Prospect and World Policy Journal. His Encounter article, "The New Proletariat" (September, 1974) was regarded as a profound analysis of racial strife to come. His interviews of leading political ...
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... economic, financial and political perceptions and structures, there is a compelling need to create conditions for a just, truly democratic and secure world whose citizens are empowered to interact with ...
By Jaya Ramachandran
ROME (IDN) – Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the international edition of the World Social Forum (WSF) will take place virtually this year from January 23 to 31, marking the 20th ...
... a world vaccine, the reality is much dimmer. So far, the rich countries have bought as much of the vaccines as possible. Europe, with 13 percent of the world population, has bought 51 percent of the total ...
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio*
ROME (IDN | OtherNews) – For 2021, Italy has been given chairmanship of the Group of 20, which brings together the world’s 20 most important countries. On paper, they represent ...
... the price of doing business.
Perhaps, then, the threat is that China seeks to remake the world in its own image? This is a popular trope among the national security establishment.
H.R. McMaster, ...
... on the eve of the New Year day: "The children born today enter a world far different than even a year ago, and a New Year brings a new opportunity to reimagine it."
Expectedly, the Pacific island nation ...
... worried about endangering its interests in the Arab world and alienating nascent Third World opinion in the heady days of the independence movement; and by superpower confrontation since the USSR had rushed ...
... Daisaku Ikeda."
NEW YORK (IDN) – The UN announced on the occasion of the milestone 75th birth anniversary that the celebration "and its founding Charter comes at a time of great disruption for the world, ...
... of how the world is drifting, in a crisis of leadership. It was, in a sense, a showcase. Everybody had to accept the view that the host of the meeting, the ailing King Salman of Saudi Arabia, was accompanied ...
... anniversary on November 18. The program has more than 1500 members in 147 countries, all applying their academic inquiry, research and innovation to solving some of the world’s greatest challenges while ...
By Jutta Wolf
BERLIN (IDN) – With the Ethiopia domestic conflict further escalating, the World Future Council has called upon conflicting parties to "end the devastating infighting, to respect international ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Backed by an overwhelming number of World Trade Organization (WTO) delegates, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was on a fast track to become the head ...
... World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Einstein, who regretted the marginal role he played in the creation of the atomic bomb, was implicit in his warning ...
... them possessors of nuclear arms. They took responsibility for creating a path toward the global elimination of nuclear weapons, essentially because the world’s most powerful states—all nuclear-armed—are ...
By Jaya Ramachandran
GENEVA (IDN) – The UN World Health Organization (WHO) is alarmed at the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases in Europe where nearly 700,000 cases were reported this week, the highest ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has at least two African partners stepping up on the global stage and telling world leaders to “wake ...
... of trees, we and the quickly developing world should step away from seeing them merely as carbon sinks. When defining trees through just that one aspect we are likely to forget their keystone character ...
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*
LUND, Sweden (IDN) – There was a great piece of news announced on August 25 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Wild-polio has been wiped out of Africa, thanks to a vaccine. ...
... warns a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report.
With this in view, former world leaders, economists and educationalists say in a letter to the Group of Twenty ...
... to sustain and perpetuate gender inequalities in India.
COVID-19 and the ensuing lockdowns worldwide have forced markets and the movement of people to a standstill. But the unpaid care economy has ...
... of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Ten days before this, the Chinese government had said—to great ...
By Jutta Wolf
BERLIN | LONDON (IDN) – A group of eminent world leaders, comprising The Elders, has called on the heads of states of five permanent members (P5) of the UN Security Council to use the 75th ...
... have easily passed before it was detected. Then it would have rampaged through societies all over the world.
Long before AIDS became known, the human immunodeficiency virus HIV was at work. Scientists ...
By Caroline Mwanga
NEW YORK (IDN) – A new report by the United Nations is pleading for the immediate introduction of a Temporary Basic Income for the world’s poorest people, arguing that this could slow ...
... Children of the World. He served as a Vice President of the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly, marking the 70th anniversary of the world body.
The high-level gathering adopted 17 Sustainable ...
... in Brazil, arguably the country with the worst pandemic response in the world.
Brazil’s vulnerabilities are visible in the mass graves in São Paulo and Manaus. The country is competing with the USA for ...
... to families over single people and childless couples. It insured farmers against the vagrancies of weather and the world market. It introduced a graduated income tax and child-support allowances, kindergartens, ...
... to the free world. As a result, this protest is unwarranted, uncalled for, unnecessary and above all, counterproductive. [Ji is a gender-neutral honorific used as a suffix in many languages of the Indian ...
... World War. In the West it’s not that well-known a fact that the Soviet Union lost many more soldiers and civilians in the war than all the rest of the allies put together. Without the alliance of the West ...
Viewpoint by Roseline Orwa *
BONDO, Kenya (IDN) – COVID-19, the deadly pandemic that has upended our world, is also, according to a new report, “a widow-making machine”. The emerging scientific evidence ...
Viewpoint by René Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens
GENEVA (IDN) — "For nearly a half a century — almost as long as the United Nations has been in existence — the General Assembly has recognized ...
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power
LUND, Sweden (IDN) – The world is supposed to be pulling together to defeat the Coronavirus and to some extent it is. Earlier on Russia sent special equipment to the U.S. ...
... of humanity, the Russians defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. It is the single most important day in Russian history that elicits a strong feeling of pride and patriotic fervour that binds the nation ...
... online to take part in the first-ever virtual World Conference: Abolish Nuclear Weapons | Resist and Reverse Climate Change | For Social and Economic Justice.
The event as an in-person conference in ...
... targets and rebuilding "our world for the better". They were addressing a two-day video conference in Berlin co-organised by Germany and Britain, the latter as the presidency of UN Climate Conference (COP ...
... scenarios could disrupt security and governance worldwide throughout the 21st century. Our culminating report, 'A Security Threat Assessment of Global Climate Change', was launched in Washington just as ...
... donors that will allow us to better alleviate the dire effects that COVID-19 is having on some of the world's most vulnerable communities," said IOM's Director General António Vitorino, while expressing ...
... more than 200 former world leaders, leading economists and global health experts, makes sad reading.
The letter, sent by a group that claims the right to speak on behalf of humanity – when the United ...
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio*
ROME (IDN) – If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on Earth, ...
By Daniel Johnson of UN News
GENEVA (IDN) – The impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the elderly, the world's poorest, and the asylum seekers as well as the ways and means of addressing the after-effects ...
... who are carrying the virus do not come into contact with others, then the chain of dispersal is broken.
But how do you know if you have the virus? The World Health Organization said that the only way ...
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While action on COVID-19 has lowered CO2 emission drastically, with flights suspended and factories closed in many parts of the world, it has also shown how damaging a rapid response can be, compared ...
By Reinhard Jacobsen
BRUSSELS | PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (IDN) – Former secretary general of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group, Dr. Patrick I. Gomes whose five-year tenure concluded end of ...
... technologies, Africa is joining the burgeoning world of digital economies. Estimates suggest about 264 e-commerce start-ups are operational across the continent, active in at least 23 countries. There’s ...
Viewpoint by Katarina Schwarz and Jean Allain, with Andrea Nicholson*
NOTTINGHAM (IDN) – “Slavery is illegal everywhere.” So said the New York Times, repeated at the World Economic Forum, and used as ...
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power
LUND, Sweden (IDN) – Do we know how to end poverty in the Third World? Do we know why some economies expand and others don’t? Not really. There is no clear formula for growth. ...
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – A continuing shortage of offers of sanctuary from governments across the world is a vital impediment to the resettlement of refugees. Nearly 1.4 million refugees are estimated ...
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Yet the world as a whole does appear to be getting happier, except in a few countries where war or fighting has taken over – Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Burundi and Sudan, for example.
Indeed, the ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) –The World Bank’s executive board cancelled expected action on a $500 million loan to Tanzania where teenage girls can be expelled from school ...
... against the Rohingya people, a Muslim minority that lives in the West of the Buddhist-dominated country.
The International Court of Justice (the World Court) which ruled on January 23 against the Myanmar ...
... of hosting top diplomats of three world powers – the United States, China and Russia. One of the president’s first significant announcements was that Sri Lanka would follow a staunchly non-aligned independent ...