Statement by Daisaku Ikeda, President, Soka Gakkai International (SGI) to 2022 NPT Review Conference TOKYO — Seventy-seven years have passed since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not only is there a lack of any concrete progress toward nuclear weapons abolition but the risk that nuclear weapons will actually be used has risen to […]
Caring about Nuclear Sharing: A Setback for Nuclear Arms Control
Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. BONN (IDN) — Russia’s repeated references to nuclear weapons since it started the war in Ukraine have put nuclear weapons back at centre stage of the strategic discussions. This has raised anxieties about a possible […]
Unsolved Cases of Police Brutality on The Rise in Kenya
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — For Kenyans who waited six years and one month for justice, a Nairobi court finally handed them a decision—finding three police officers guilty in the kidnapping and murder of a human rights lawyer, his client and their taxi driver—all of whom disappeared after being locked […]
Deep Cuts in Funds for African Drought Victims as Money Flows to Europe
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — The war in Ukraine is draining millions of dollars away from crises in Africa as funds are being redirected to Europe. Somalia, facing a food shortage largely driven by the war, could be the most vulnerable. Its aid funding is less than half of last […]
Ivorian Parliament to Review Polygamy in a Blow for Women’s Equality
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — A bill before parliament in the Ivory Coast would upend monogamy and restore polygamy—a marriage that includes one husband and at least two wives. Outraged women’s groups call it a return to inequality. The move mirrors setbacks worldwide, including the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on […]
Why Do Zimbabwean Women Shun Politics?
By Farai Shawn Matiashe MUTARE, Zimbabwe (IDN) — Cyberbullying and online sexual harassment are some dilemmas that young women trying to rise in Zimbabwe’s patriarchal and male-dominated political space face. What started as a debate on the opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), led by young and charismatic politician Nelson Chamisa not having structures, […]
White House Confirms Plans to Send US-NATO Jets to Fight Russia
Viewpoint by Andre Damon This article first appeared on the World Socialist Website MICHIGAN, USA (IDN) — In what may be the most provocative escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia to date, the White House has confirmed that the US is planning to send NATO-made fighter jets to Ukraine. John Kirby, the National Security […]
Land Lease System Threatens Sustainability of Cane Farming in Fiji
By Kalinga Seneviratne SUVA, Fiji (IDN) — Though sugar cane is thought to be indigenous to the islands of the South Pacific, it was the British who started to grow it as a cash crop in Fiji in the later part of the 19th century. In 37 years, beginning in 1879, they shipped some 60,000 […]
Pacific Leaders Endorse ‘2050 Strategy of the Blue Pacific’
Pledge to Promote “Accountable” Development By Sera Tikotikovatu-Sefeti SUVA, Fiji (IDN) — The leaders of the Pacific gathering for the first time in three years endorsed the 2050 Strategy for a Blue Pacific at the 51st Pacific Island Forum (PIF) from July 11 to July 14. “The success of this strategy is down to two […]
For Erdogan the Failed Coup was A “Gift from God”
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) — Perhaps nothing has changed Turkey’s domestic and international trajectory since the establishment […]