By Ramesh Jaura UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Since the political turbulence of 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which engulfed entire Eastern Europe, Albania has been resolutely sailing west. In 2009 the country became a full member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and it has made great strides towards membership of […]
Climate Change Threatens Bhutan’s Development Gains
By Ramesh Jaura UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – The Buddhist kingdom Bhutan’s report to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development was in many ways exceptional. The holistic goal the landlocked country on the Himalayas’ eastern edge has set itself is the pursuit of Gross National Happiness (GNH). The principal guiding philosophy behind […]
Reality Submerged by Myths on Immigration
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio The writer is publisher of Other News, an eminent proponent of “information that markets eliminate” and founder of IPS-Inter Press Service News Agency. This article is being reproduced courtesy of Other News with the writer’s permission. He can be contacted at utopia@robertosavio.info and his articles and comments can be read on […]
Climate Change ‘Main Pillar’ of EU-China Relations
By Robert Johnson BRUSSELS (IDN) – Collaboration between the European Union (EU) and China on climate change and clean energy is set to become “a main pillar” of their bilateral partnership, including in their economic relations, according to a joint statement. Titled EU-China Leaders’ Statement on Climate Change and Clean Energy, the statement underlines their […]
Climate Change Is Driving Up Forced Displacement By Disasters
By Mami Mizutori The author is Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). The following appeared as blog on ‘Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform’ on 17 July 2018. – The Editor. NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – If there was a SDG18 it might well coalesce around […]
Asia-Pacific May Achieve Only One Out Of 17 Goals By 2030
By Ramesh Jaura UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) spanning an area home to 4.1 billion people, or two thirds of the world’s population, sprang a surprise when it admitted that at the current rate of progress in the region only one of the […]
Trump Wants To Do It His Way
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Russian president Vladimir Putin has been in a benign mood after a perfectly organized World Cup which gave Russians and foreigners the rare freedom to mass in the street. In response the world TV audience has looked at Russia with new eyes. Maybe there’s a new Russia […]
Why Must President Biya Follow President Robert Mugabe?
By LIsa Vives | Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Cameroon’s President Paul Biya is seriously considering a re-election bid despite having served 36 years in the job and despite approaching 90 years of age. The President-for-Life syndrome is sadly alive and well. An editorial in the Liberian Daily Observer expressed on July 16 […]
Competitive Diplomacy Under the Trump Administration – Part 2
Viewpoint by Michele Nobile* This is the second of a two-part article which was written before the July 11-12 NATO summit in Brussels – The Editor. ROME (IDN) – It is evident that the reduction or even wiping out of U.S. spending on United Nations agencies is essentially irrelevant from the point of view of […]
Competitive Diplomacy Under the Trump Administration – Part 1
Viewpoint by Michele Nobile* This is the first of a two-part article which was written before the July 11-12 NATO summit in Brussels – The Editor. ROME (IDN) – The goal of the diplomacy of George W. Bush under his National Security Strategy (NSS) was to be “transformative”, that is, aimed at building and supporting […]