By Kalinga Seneviratne This article is the 38th in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate. Click here for previous articles. SYDNEY (IDN) – A positive outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic could be a better understanding of protecting biodiversity and a global ban on the […]
COVID-19: USA, France and China Crave African Support to Overcome the Pandemic
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – The U.S. and France are treading unexpected paths to besiege COVID-19 with African assistance. Striking a different note, the Nigerians have strong reservations about a team of Chinese specialists invited to support them in combating the pandemic in the West African country. While the desperate […]
IAEA Supporting Countries in the Fight against COVID-19
By Reinhard Jacobsen VIENNA (IDN) – Responding to requests for support from around 90 Member States in controlling an increasing number of infections worldwide, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is dispatching a first batch of equipment to more than 40 countries to enable them to use a nuclear-derived technique to rapidly detect the coronavirus […]
COVID-19: Sinophobia Threatening to Endanger Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention
Viewpoint by Kalinga Seneviratne* SYDNEY (IDN) – With the spread of COVID-19 to Europe and the US a bout of Sinophobia seems to have infected the western media. On March 29, Australia’s 60-minute program – that is well known for sensational reporting – broadcast a program that portrayed China as the villain of the COVID-19 […]
COVID-19: Call for Freeing All Journalists Jailed Globally
By CPJ NEW YORK (IDN) – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has launched the #FreeThePress campaign to call for the unconditional release of all jailed journalists to ensure their safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past four years, CPJ’s annual census has found a record high number of journalists in jail because of […]
The Impact of COVID-19 on the World’s Vulnerable a Major Priority of the UN
By Daniel Johnson of UN News GENEVA (IDN) – The impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the elderly, the world’s poorest, and the asylum seekers as well as the ways and means of addressing the after-effects are some major priorities of the United Nations. Abandoning elderly at risk from coronavirus is ‘criminal’, the UN […]