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Climate Change2015-09-172023-07-10

Groups Urge Coordinated Communications Initiatives on Climate Change

By Rodrigo Pérez | IDN-InDepthNews Report

QUITO (IDN) – A group of major international organisations has issued a call for strong and coordinated communications initiatives to support action on climate change.

The UN-backed Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Programme (REEEP) and Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) together with the Overseas Development Institute, Climate and Development Knowledge Network and dozens more are backing the launch of the ‘Climate Knowledge Brokers’ Manifesto’, which lists the key principles for communicating climate change effectively and so precipitating a step change in society’s response to the climate crisis.

GLOBAL ISSUES2015-09-142023-07-10

Sri Lanka: Voters’ Expectations Yet to be Fulfilled

By Kalinga Seneviratne* | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

SINGAPORE (IDN) – The U.S., UK and the international media have hailed the August 18 election results in Sri Lanka as a victory for democracy, but the looser may well turn out to be the voters of Sri Lanka. The political comedy that has taken place in the island republic in the aftermath of the election, exposes yet again the deficiencies of the democracy gospel that is unable to stamp out embedded corruption in the system.

Trade2015-09-142023-07-10

Uruguay Pulls Out of ‘Secret’ Talks on Trade in Services

By Roberto Bissio* | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

MONTEVIDEO (IDN | SUNS) – Just a week before the deadline for submitting national offers on liberalisation of services sectors under the on-going “secret” talks for a Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez decided on September 7 to abandon the plurilateral negotiations.

GLOBAL ISSUES2015-09-112023-07-10

Vietnam: From Ho Chi Minh to ‘Selfies’

By Shastri Ramachandran | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

NEW DELHI (IDN) – Transitions are easy to recognise, difficult to define and describe. Vietnam’s transition is no different: easily experienced by the visitor but hard to express adequately in words.

New Vietnam is most visible at the historical sites of Old Vietnam, such as the Ho Chi Minh complex in Hanoi and the Cu Chi Tunnel complex, 70 kms northwest of Ho Chi Minh City.

ARMAMENTS2015-08-312023-07-10

‘Generation of Change’ Pleads for Walking the Nuclear Abolition Talk

By Ronald Joshua | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

HIROSHIMA (IDN) – A new ‘Generation of Change’ is making its presence felt, pledging to walk the talk over the last 70 years in a clarion call for freeing the world of 16,000 to 17,000 nuclear weapons that continue “to threaten every single person with the prospect of a cruel and inhumane death”.

ARMAMENTS2015-08-292023-07-10

Growing Calls for Nuclear Disarmament Summit in Hiroshima

By Ramesh Jaura

HIROSHIMA (IDN) – Calls are growing for organising a nuclear disarmament summit next year in Hiroshima, one of the only two cities, along with Nagasaki, which have until now suffered the devastating atomic bombings 70 years ago. But indications are that there is only a remote possibility that such a gathering would indeed take place.

ARMAMENTS2015-08-282023-07-10

Addressing the Disarmament Deficit

By Daryl G. Kimball* | IDN-InDepthNews Viewpoint

HIROSHIMA (IDN) – In the seven decades since the U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons have become less and less relevant to the security of possessor states and their allies and the potential harm of their further use has become even more harmful to international security and human survival.

ARMAMENTS2015-08-092023-07-10

Learning from Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings

By Katsuhiro Asagiri* | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

TOKYO (IDN) – In a message to the Peace Memorial Ceremony, to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon echoed the ardent wish of the survivors of nuclear assault, when he called for “urgent action to eliminate nuclear weapons once and for all”.

New Media2015-08-032023-07-10

Report Highlights Importance of Digital Economy

By Krishan Dutt | IDN-InDepthNews Report

PARIS (IDN) – The 34-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) faults rich and emerging countries of the bloc for lack of a national strategy on protecting online privacy or funding research in this area. This, it says in a new report, tends to be viewed as a matter for law enforcement authorities to handle.

The report titled OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015 however notes that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are transforming the ways social interactions and personal relationships are conducted, with fixed, mobile and broadcast networks converging, and devices and objects increasingly connected to form the Internet of Things (IoT).

ARMAMENTS2015-07-222023-07-10

Pacific Island Countries Want a World Without Nuclear Weapons

By Neena Bhandari | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

SYDNEY (IDN) – As political conflicts magnify in the Middle East and North Africa with the spectre of brutal violence from terrorist organisations like ISIS, and the Ukraine crisis reignites the Cold War between the United States, its NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organisation] allies and Russia; it is imperative that nuclear-armed and non-nuclear states together work for total elimination of nuclear weapons. The risk of use of nuclear weapons, by deliberation or accident, leading to total annihilation looms large more than ever before.