By Jamshed Baruah GENEVA (IDN) — Despite the COVID-19 pandemic creating havoc worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) has good news in public health. Its Global Tobacco Epidemic 2021 report says progress is being made in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3: to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at […]
Policy Making Should Be the Final Destination for All Young Climate Activists and Their Peers
Viewpoint by Simone Galimberti Simone Galimberti is the Co-Founder of ENGAGE, a not-for-profit NGO based in Nepal. He writes on volunteerism, social inclusion, youth development and regional integration as an engine to improve people’s lives. KATHMANDU (IDN) — As forecasted by many, the Glasgow Summit has been, eventually, a flop on most counts.
The Global Pandemic Pushing Africa into A Severe Job Crisis
By Johann Ivanov* ACCRA (IDN) — Africa is facing a severe employment crisis. But if nothing is done to find a solution, it could get much worse in the not-too-distant future, as World Bank projections from 2017 show: By 2035, Africa’s working age population will expand by 450 million. At the same time, however, only […]
Intra-African Trade Fair Aims to Strengthen the Continent’s Industrial Base
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW | DURBAN (IDN) — South Africa is hosting a weeklong Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2021), which provides a unique and valuable platform for businesses to access an integrated African market of over 1.2 billion people with a GDP of over US$2.5 trillion. Organized by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration […]
Africa Faces A “Perfect Storm” Due to Under-Investment in Children
By Ronald Joshua ADDIS ABABA (IDN) — Child deprivation “has a lasting and detrimental impact on nations’ political stability, prosperity and sustainable development”, warns a new report. Titled The Economic Case for Investing in Children in Africa: Investing in our Common Future, the report was launched on November 18 at a pan-African virtual event involving […]
Fiji Islands: Gasping for Air Residents Await Government Action
By Josefa Babitu * The writer is a final year Journalism student at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Islands. This article is a collaboration between University of South Pacific’s student’s newspaper Wansolwara and IDN-InDepthNews. SUVA, Fiji Islands (IDN) — “I have never been in a situation where I’ve had to fight […]
COP26: ‘A Shameful Dereliction of Duty’
By Kurt Reynolds LONDON (IDN) — When the COP26 climate change summit ended in the early hours of November 13, the results were mostly dismissed as a major disappointment not only by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at Glasgow but also by former world leaders. Mary Robinson, Chair of the Elders, an independent group of former global […]
The Contours of Central Asia’s Rapid Integration are Underlined by New Railway Agreements
Viewpoint by M.K. Bhadrakumar * This article was produced in partnership by Indian Punchline and Globetrotter. M.K. Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. Source: Globetrotter NEW DELHI (IDN) — The information war is so intense nowadays that unsung melodies are often more alluring that the sung ones. The lines from English poet Shelley’s famous ode […]
Humanitarian Catastrophe on The Belarus/Polish Border Is Not A ‘Migrant Crisis’
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — It’s always sad to see migrants up against it, whether it be the deadly waves of the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas, the slow churning processes of the US/Mexican border and, in the case now in the news, of 4,000 or so mainly Kurdish migrants trapped on […]
A Private Funeral to Be Held for Last of The Apartheid-Era Presidents
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — There will be no state funeral for South Africa’s last white president, Frederick Willem de Klerk, his foundation said in a published statement. Instead, Mr. de Klerk will have a private burial following cremation on November 21 for family members that will be closed to […]