Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Right now, 47 years ago to the day in the autumn of 1975, the corridors of the UN in New York were abuzz with a small army of Amnesty International staff members lobbying countries to agree on a Declaration Against Torture.
A UN Security Council Committee Meets in India to Commit to Fight Digital Terror
By Aar Jay NEW YORK | NEW DELHI (IDN) — In a two-day meeting of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee in India, member states have decided to counter the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes. The non-binding document, known as The Delhi Declaration, was adopted in the Indian capital on October […]
UN Climate Conference Must Make Funds for Poor Nations A Priority
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Water stress, withering droughts and devastating floods are hitting African communities, economies and ecosystems hard. Rainfall patterns are disrupted, glaciers are disappearing and key lakes are shrinking. In South Africa, the extreme rainfall that triggered one of the country’s deadliest disasters of this century was […]
Effective Ebola Vaccines Discovered in Pennsylvania Drug Company’s Freezer
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Thousands of doses of a vaccine effective against the Ebola pathogen now circulating in Uganda have been discovered in freezers of the Merck pharmaceutical company in Pennsylvania. The drugs were discovered after repeated inquiries by Science magazine, a peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association […]
Thousands Turn Out for Pride Parade in South Africa
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | JOHANNESBURG (IDN) — With the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, over three thousand people turned out for a joyous gay Pride Parade in Johannesburg despite a warning by the U.S. embassy of a potential terrorist attack. LGBTQ activists cheered the resumption of the event after two years, […]
London Museums to Return Human Remains Stolen from Zimbabwe
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | LONDON (IDN) — The era of European museums claiming ownership of the bones and skulls of African war heroes stolen years ago may finally be coming to an end. A negotiated settlement to return African remains involved London’s Natural History Museum and Cambridge University. The two […]
The Absurdity of the Israel-Hamas Relationship
Viewpoint by Alon Ben-Meir Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a retired professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University (NYU). He taught courses on international negotiation and Middle Eastern studies for over 20 years. NEW YORK (IDN) — Given that Israel and Hamas collaborate both publicly and tacitly on multiple […]
Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Sinking the Congressional Dems—and Ukraine
Viewpoint by Jeffrey D. Sachs The proxy war between the U.S. and Russia is devastating Ukraine, ironically in the name of saving Ukraine. This article was published in Common Dreams and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK (IDN) — President Joe Biden is undermining his party’s Congressional prospects through a deeply flawed […]
Will Sunak as Prime Minister Halt Britain’s Slide into Chaos?
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — In a widely shared story earlier this month, The Economist likened the political carnage in Britain to the situation in Italy in the 1940s. Italy was a major theatre of the First World War at […]
Asia-Pacific: Using Space Applications for Sustainable Development
By Santo D. Banerjee BANGKOK (IDN) — Ministers and heads of national space agencies endorsed the Jakarta Ministerial Declaration on Space Applications for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific at the close of a high-level meeting co-organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Government […]