Viewpoint by Razia Sultana The author is a Rohingya lawyer, researcher and educator specializing in trauma, mass rape and trafficking of Rohingya girls and women. She has been working with Rohingya women and girls in the refugee camps in Bangladesh documenting the stories of women and girls who fled Myanmar, and has published two reports: […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 8
By Roberto Massari* This is the eighth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – MARXIST STORY: Scene 8 [Prague, 1966] At this point we must devote attention to this polemic, trying first of all to imagine the scene: after the lengthy confinement in the […]
Asia Society Names a Global Company CEO as ‘Game Changer’
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – Asia Society, in partnership with Citi, has announced the Indian-born Indra K. Nooyi as Game Changer of the Year for 2018 in recognition of her “life-saving collaboration with the United Nations on food, nutrition, global water, climate, and women’s empowerment issues.” Asia Society President and CEO Josette Sheeran […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 7
By Roberto Massari* This is the seventh of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – HERESY STORY: Scene 7 [from Moscow to Havana, 1963-65] The starting scene for describing this intellectual revival of Guevara’s Marxism is set in Moscow and he described it himself in one […]
EU-U.S. Tussle Over Iran Sanctions and the Aftermath
By Kelsey Davenport The author is Director for Non-Proliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association (ACA). This analysis is being reproduced from ACA’s Special Newsletter of August 24, 2018. – The Editor. WASHINGON. D.C. (IDN-INPS) – During an August 19-22 trip to Israel, National Security Advisor John Bolton said U.S. sanctions reimposed on Iran are […]
Kofi Annan Was the United Nations, Says UN Chief Guterres
By Shanta Roy NEW YORK (IDN) – Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the first from sub-Saharan Africa, was the only UN chief who rose from the mid-level ranks of the professional staff to the 38th floor of the Secretariat. At a wreath-laying ceremony in the UN precincts on August 21, […]
UN’s Fallen Chief Kofi Annan ‘A Voice for the Voiceless’
By António Guterres Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered, at the wreath-laying for Kofi Annan at United Nations Headquarters, in New York on August 22, 2018. Read also Kofi Annan: A Life of Service to People Across the World. – The Editor NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – We are here to pay tribute […]
The Elders Call for Restraint and Justice in Zimbabwe to Honour Kofi Annan’s Legacy
By The Elders LONDON (IDN-INPS) – The Elders today urged Zimbabweans at every level in society to uphold the democratic rights to justice and peaceful protest, and refrain from words or actions that could incite violence, drawing on the counsel of their late Chair, Kofi Annan (1938-2018). Ahead of the ruling by Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court […]
‘2030 SDGs Game’ Arouses Growing Interest in Japan
By Ramesh Jaura and Katsuhiro Asagiri BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – Reports have it that when Albert Einstein was some five years old and confined to bed, his father gave him a magnetic pocket compass to play with. He twisted and turned it, wondering how the needle always knew to point towards the north. Takeo […]
A Glimmer of Hope for Zanzibar Seaweed Farmers
By Kizito Makoye PAJE, Zanzibar (IDN) – As the morning breeze sweeps Mwanamkasi Jumbe wade through knee-deep water, her gown flapping in the wind as she drags a pile of seaweed seedlings to her farm before it is too hot. Armed with a bundle of sticks, she hangs pieces of fresh seaweed haphazardly hooked on […]