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1. THE WORLD

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Created on 25 December 2015

2. UN Women

(Contacts / Organizations)

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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3. Stella Paul

(Contacts / Editors and Bureau Chiefs)

Stella Paul, Stella Paul is Environment & Development Journalist, based in Hyderabad, India. She is the Winner of Asian Environmental Journalism Award 2015, 2014 & 2013 as well as Winner, All India Environmental ...

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4. Phil Harris

(Contacts / Editors and Bureau Chiefs)

... 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, ...

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5. Jonathan Power

(Contacts / Writers)

... 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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6. INPS-IDN Editors

(Contacts / Organizations)

INPS-IDN Editors, IDN-InDepthNews offers news analyses, features, reports and viewpoints that impact the world and its peoples. It has been online since 2009. Its network spans countries around the world. ...

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7. Global Cooperation Council

(Contacts / Organizations)

... 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 ...

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8. Landmark World Social Forum Meets Virtually

(Global Partnerships)

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 ...

Created on 14 January 2021

9. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 2

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 13 January 2021

10. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 1

(OPINION)

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 ...

Created on 13 January 2021

11. Is China Seeking to Remake the World in Its Own Image?

(OPINION)

... 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, ...

Created on 08 January 2021

12. Make 2021 A Fairer, Safer, Healthier World for Children

(Health & Well Being)

... 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 ...

Created on 01 January 2021

13. Encourage USA To Compromise with Russia, Iran, China and The Islamic World

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 30 December 2020

14. The Culture of Peace: For a Safer, Saner and Sustainable World

(OPINION)

... 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, ...

Created on 28 December 2020

15. Stunning Lack of G20 Responsibility for the World’s Poor

(Poverty)

... 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 ...

Created on 25 November 2020

16. UNAI Celebrates 10th Anniversary Stressing Partnership with Universities Worldwide

(UN INSIDER)

... 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 ...

Created on 19 November 2020

17. World Future Council Joins the UN in Calling for an End to Fighting in Ethiopia

(Horn of Africa)

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 ...

Created on 16 November 2020

18. U.S. Upsets Election of African Candidate for Top World Trade Post

(USA and Canada)

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 ...

Created on 02 November 2020

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

(UN INSIDER)

... 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 ...

Created on 01 November 2020

20. The U.S. Should Embrace TPNW's Vision of a More Democratic Worl

(Nuclear Weapons)

... 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 ...

Created on 28 October 2020

21. The World Health Organization Deeply Concerned About COVID-19 Rise in Europe

(COVID-19)

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 ...

Created on 15 October 2020

22. African Teens on World Stage Demand Action on Climate Change

(Africa)

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 ...

Created on 14 October 2020

23. Cool News in a Warming World: Why Invest in Future Forests

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 01 October 2020

24. The Rich Countries Should Help Contain the Effect of Coronavirus in the Third World

(OPINION)

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. ...

Created on 01 September 2020

25. World Leaders Call for Funds to Stop COVID-19 Generation from Being Locked Out of the Classroom

(Quality Education)

... 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 ...

Created on 20 August 2020

26. India's COVID-19 Experience May Usher in a More Humane World for Women and Informal Sector Worker

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 19 August 2020

27. Trump Managed to Lead the World With the Worst Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 07 August 2020

28. The Elders Urge World Leaders to Take Action or Risk Nuclear Catastrophe

(Peace & Justice)

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 ...

Created on 05 August 2020

29. We Need A One-World Monitoring System to Watch and Destroy Viruses

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 04 August 2020

30. UNDP Favours Temporary Basic Income to Protect the World's Poorest from The Impact of COVID-1

(UN INSIDER)

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 ...

Created on 23 July 2020

31. A Train Tour for Children of the World into 2030

(Peace & Justice)

... 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 ...

Created on 09 July 2020

32. COVID-19: How Brazil Became the World's 2nd Worst Hit Countr

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 01 July 2020

33. World War II: 75 Years on Doubts on the Origins

(EU & Europe)

... 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, ...

Created on 30 June 2020

34. The Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi for Britain and the World

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 29 June 2020

35. The Second World War: Flawed and Ignorant Thinking in Both Russia and The West

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 23 June 2020

36. A UN Day Will Address Serious Concerns of Widows Worldwide

(Health & Well Being)

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 ...

Created on 19 June 2020

37. US Abating the Slow Growth of Much-Needed World Law

(OPINION)

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 ...

Created on 14 June 2020

38. U.S. Attacks on China Threaten World Peace

(OPINION)

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. ...

Created on 19 May 2020

39. Russia's Victory in WWII Changed the World but War Drums Continu

(Russia)

... 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 ...

Created on 06 May 2020

40. World Conference Calls for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and Reversing Climate Change

(Nuclear Weapons)

... 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 ...

Created on 30 April 2020

41. UN Chief and German Chancellor Call for Rebuilding 'Our World for the Better' ...

(Climate Action)

... 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 ...

Created on 29 April 2020

42. Coronavirus Shows World Not Prepared for Security Threat of Climate Change

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 17 April 2020

43. UN Migration Ramps Up Coronavirus Response Worldwide

(UN INSIDER)

... 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 ...

Created on 16 April 2020

44. COVID-19: Are the World's "Leaders" up to the Challeng

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 13 April 2020

45. Ponder Who We Are and the World We Live In

(Reduced Inequalities)

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, ...

Created on 11 April 2020

46. The Impact of COVID-19 on the World's Vulnerable a Major Priority of the U

(COVID-19)

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 ...

Created on 02 April 2020

47. COVID-19: The Indian State of Kerala is a Beacon to the World

(Asia-Pacific)

... 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 ...

Created on 29 March 2020

48. The World's Response to COVID-19 Has Slashed CO2 Emission

(OPINION)

...  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 ...

Created on 21 March 2020

49. Former ACP Secretary General Appeals for Calm in World's Newest Oil State Guyan

(Latin America & the Caribbean)

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 ...

Created on 08 March 2020

50. Africa Is Joining the Burgeoning World of Digital Economies

(Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 28 February 2020

51. Slavery Not a Crime in Almost Half of the World’s Countries

(OPINION)

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 ...

Created on 15 February 2020

52. Economic Growth Is Not The B-All and End-All In The Third World

(OPINION)

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. ...

Created on 11 February 2020

53. More Offers Needed to Resettle Refugees Around the World

(UN INSIDER)

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 ...

Created on 05 February 2020

54. The World as A Whole Is Getting Happier

(OPINION)

...  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 ...

Created on 04 February 2020

55. Emergency World Bank Meeting on Tanzania Focuses on Women’s Rights

(Africa)

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 ...

Created on 30 January 2020

56. World Court Gives Myanmar 4 Months to Put Its House in Order

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 28 January 2020

57. World Powers Come to Woo Sri Lanka

(Asia-Pacific)

... 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 ...

Created on 23 January 2020

58. World Humanitarian Summit

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World Humanitarian Summit

Created on 23 April 2016

59. World

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World

Created on 27 December 2015