By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Protests that began over the skyrocketing price of bread and shortages of food and fuel have accomplished what few people believed was possible in a country ruled by a leader with an iron fist. A Sudanese people’s movement was born on the streets of Khartoum. […]
WHO Forum on Medicines Calls for Fair Prices
By Ronald Joshua JOHANNESBURG (IDN) – Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development, according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) scheduled to be realized by 2030. Goal 3 cannot however be achieved as long as people have to pay for medicines out-of-pocket and fall into poverty. This […]
Vibrant Democracy Is India’s Trump Card against China
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Conversation with Manmohan Singh was always fascinating at the time he was prime minister of India. It was difficult to challenge his superior intellect. He could, in his calm, disciplined way, out-argue anyone. He saw where India was going with a degree of exactness that dwarfed other […]
2019 A Defining Year for Implementing SDGs and the Paris Agreement
By António Guterres The following are extensive excerpts from opening remarks of the UN Secretary-General to the 2019 ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum on April 15. This, he said, was “critical moment for governments, businesses, and societies to accelerate action for sustainable development”. NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – We have the tools to tackle poverty, inequality, […]
Inadequate Funding Threatens Sustainable Development Goals
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – Much to the United Nations’ dismay, desperately missing funds are imperiling realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Investments that are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals remain underfunded and parts of the multilateral system are under strain, warned a new report as the fourth Forum […]
Radio Connects a Kyrgyz Community with the World
By Kalinga Seneviratne SUUSAMYR, Kyrgyzstan (IDN) – Travelling on the new Silk Roads recently upgraded by the Chinese, one drives up through stunning mountains that are still covered by snow even as summer approaches. The road from Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek climbs up to a peak of about 4.000 meters before descending over 1500 meters to […]
FAO Starts Giving Much-Needed Seeds to Cyclone Hit Mozambique
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK | ROME (IDN) – While clock is ticking to reboot agriculture as secondary growing season is .already underway, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has started distribution of much-needed seeds and tools in cyclone-ravaged Mozambique. Nearly three weeks after the Tropical Cyclone Idai, which was […]
India Between Democracy and Religious Nationalism
By Milan Vaishnav The following are extensive excerpts from the Executive Summary of a study on ‘The BJP in Power: Indian Democracy and Religious Nationalism’ published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.The views represented herein are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees. The […]
African Nations Can Choose Their Own Destiny
Viewpoint by Beatrice Fihn Following are extensive excerpts from International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Executive Director Beatrice Fihn’s address to the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council on April 4, 2019 at the organization’s Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ADDIS ABABA (IDN-INPS) – Across the world we have seen the devastating impacts […]
South Africa a Shining Example of Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – As the nuclear weapons and fossil fuel divestment campaigns gather steam, their political impact could be as powerful as the divestment campaign against South Africa in the late 20th Century, which was a critical factor in moving the South African government to end apartheid in 1994, anticipates Thies […]