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 ...
Katherine Stapp, Editor, Katherine (Kitty) Stapp is the author of Some Fine Day, a science fiction novel about climate change (Skyscape, 2014). Based in New York City, she is a graduate of the Columbia ...
... Herald Tribune (now the International New York Times) for 17 years. He was the paper's only continuous, non-American, European-based, foreign affairs columnist.
For twenty years his longer articles appeared ...
By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN) – As host city to the United Nations, New York is making the most of its position through its ambitious Global Vision, Urban Action (GVUA) platform that uses the Sustainable ...
By Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – The African Literature Association and other professional associations of writers and scholars are demanding the release of a Cameroonian-American writer ...
... now the New York Times. He has also written many dozens of columns for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. He is the European who has appeared most on the ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – A call to action endorsed by over 500 organizations and individuals in South Africa is aiming to unite millions of the nation’s citizens in ...
... systems, marked by big events, particularly the UN Food Systems Summit in New York, the Pre-Summit in Rome, and FAO’s Youth World Food Forum.
The Forum will be dedicated to the future of agri-food ...
Viewpoint by Ravi Arvind Palat
The writer is a professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton
NEW YORK (IDN) – Several commentators have underlined the sharp contrast between law ...
By Radwan Jakeem
NEW YORK (IDN) – "Our world has reached a heart-wrenching milestone: #COVID19 has now claimed two million lives. Sadly, the impact of the pandemic has been made worse by the absence ...
Viewpoint by Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback *
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
NEW YORK | BRUSSELS (IDN) – While the majority of Americans ...
Viewpoint by Lee Bebout*
TEMPE, Arizona (IDN) – Despite failed lawsuits, recounts and formal confirmation that President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump and ...
Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte
The author is Ambassador, President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.
NEW YORK (IDN) – Seventy-five ...
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 Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – While corruption trials continue for Algerian officials ousted in nation’s ‘Arab Spring’ 2010-2012, on the eve of elections, social media leader ...
Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa*
NEW YORK (IDN) – On January 6, Americans and the world watched in disbelief, horror and disgust as President Donald Trump’s fiercest supporters, stoked by the commander ...
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 ...
... YORK (IDN | UNAI) – Graffiti is terse but truthful and even if I failed in identifying the specific trigger for a carefully executed scrawl on a boulder by the water in New York, that read “Beware of Locals,” ...
By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN) – “Challenges of Maintaining Peace and Security in Fragile Contexts” were the focus of Secretary-General António Guterres' remarks at the Security Council virtual ...
Viewpoint by Richard Hanania*
This is the second of a four-part series. Click here for Part 1
NEW YORK (IDN) – No other state was considered a fundamental threat to the U.S. over the issue, with a ...
Viewpoint by Richard Hanania*
This is the first of a four-part series.
NEW YORK (IDN) – Across the political spectrum, there is widespread agreement that America must get serious about the threat posed ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Countries across Africa are hunting for deals to obtain COVID-19 vaccines at affordable prices, but their limited funds will cover less than ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – The family of comrade David Kolekile Sipunzi has confirmed the passing of the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). The announcement ...
By Marcel Alers
The author is Head of Energy of the UN Development Programme (UNDP)
NEW YORK (IDN) – The energy sector, still dominated by fossil fuels, is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas ...
... former minister. A law professor at the university of Mekelle has also been arrested for allegedly creating agitation and unrest.
Ethnic harassment continues to take place. The New York Times (NYT) reported ...
... permanent membership," according to diplomatic sources. [IDN-InDepthNews – 02 January 2021]
Photo: The United Nations Security Council Chamber in New York, also known as the Norwegian Room. CC BY-SA ...
By Caroline Mwanga
NEW YORK (IDN) – More than 371,500 children would be born on the first day of 2021, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The agency's Executive Director Henrietta Fore said ...
The following is the text of 2021 United Nations New Year's message delivered by Secretary-General António Guterres.
NEW YORK (IDN) – 2020 has been a year of trials, tragedies and tears.
COVID-19 ...
NEW YORK (IDN | UN News) – The President of the United Nations General Assembly has urged everyone around the world "to continue to work together" to end the coronavirus pandemic, and to build an inclusive ...
Compiled by Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN) – For the first time since mid-October, some 25,000 Eritrean refugees, sheltering in two camps in the unsettled Tigray region of Ethiopia, have received desperately ...
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – 2020 will be remembered as a year in which a contagious virus shut down the world, widened the gulf between the rich and the poor, triggered a spike in poverty for the ...
... Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda and across Africa. Key in-depth publications can be accessed on the website.
Regional situation
According to the New York Times (NYT), Eritrea “joined the war in ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Mixed news from Africa: the Somali Practitioner of ‘Yogadishu’, Ilwad Elman, is the German Africa Peace Prize Winner for 2020. Ilwad Elman has ...
... 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, ...
By Loraine Rickard-Martin*, Passblue
NEW YORK (IDN) – At the $79.4 billion United Nations pension fund, continuing tensions came to a head this month when the UN participant representatives to the pension ...
... in Los Angeles.
Highlighting another aspect of Fakhrizadeh's assassination, The New York Times' David E. Sanger warns that it "threatens to cripple President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s effort to revive ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Ex-President Pierre Buyoya of Burundi died December 18 in Paris where he was seeking medical treatment for Covid-19, according to relatives. ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Schoolchildren were again the targets of unknown assailants who seized the youngsters as they returned from a religious ceremony in the Nigerian ...
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Siddharth Chatterjee, an eminent Indian national at the world body, as UN "resident coordinator" to ...
By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury in New York
The following is the full text of the address by Ambassador Chowdhury at the Knesset of Israel on November 17, 2020, at 14:30 Israel Standard Time. He is ...
... politics”. President Emanuel Macron said, “his presidency had transformed France and his direction still guides its way”. The New York Times said he was “a modern-minded conservative”.
Unlike many of ...
By Lisa Vies, Global Information Network
NW YORK (IDN) – The South African firm Aspen may soon be rolling out drugs to combat COVID-19 on the continent after signing a deal with the U.S.-based Johnson ...
... conference of the parties to the NPT should be held in April-May 2022 in the Austrian capital city Vienna and not in August 2021 at the UN headquarters in New York. And this for two reasons: the wide-ranging ...
By Lisa Vies, Global Information Network
NW YORK (IDN) – While the news media from coast to coast has been trumpeting a “historic breakthrough” between Israel and Morocco with credit to the Trump administration, ...
By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN) – A new report by independent experts has proposed urgent actions to meet the pledge by developed countries to mobilize at least US$100 billion a year to support developing ...
... York Times reports on the involvement of rival ethnic militia groups in the conflict in Tigray, including Fano, which is a militia from the Amhara ethnic group. Along with Amhara regional government security ...
By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – A Soviet cosmonaut and an American astronaut shook hands high above the planet Earth, on July 17, 1975, where the Soviet spaceship Soyuz-19 and the U.S. spacecraft ...
... in the area has been unclear since the 1950s and Sudanese troops have been absent from the area for 25
Human Rights (as confirmed per 05 Dec)
The New York Times reports that they have spoken with ...
Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa*
NEW YORK (IDN) – Since the first identification of HIV/AIDS in the United States of America (USA), in 1981, approximately 76 million people have been infected with HIV, ...
By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN) – "Hunger is an outrage in a world of plenty," the UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the governing body of the Organization’s food agency, highlighting the ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Elections are a deadly game in Uganda. That was the message issued twice by Security Minister General Elly Tumwine as political rallies heat ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – A U.S. State Department red level “Do Not Visit” warning against travel to Burkina Faso has been posted to the U.S. website, as rising rates ...