Eritrea: North Koreans with Black Faces

Viewpoint by Daniel Haile* COLLEGE STATION, Texas | USA (IDN) — Eritrea is a very small country in East Africa along the Red Sea. Second to North Korea, the Eritrean regime is the most isolated, secretive, and repressive authoritarian regime globally, and the last remaining Marxist state on the African continent. The Kim Jong-un of […]

Second Comprehensive Study on NFWZs Is Needed

Viewpoint by Dr Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan The writer is Chairman of Blue Banner NGO, Former Mongolian Permanent Representative to the United Nations. ULAANBAATAR (IDN) — In preparation for the 10th Review Conference (Revcon) of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in August, a group NGOs met in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to exchange views and […]

The Brazilian Nuclear Submarine

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte The writer is an Ambassador, former United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affair, and President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. NEW YORK (IDN) — Last July 8 the Director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, informed the Board of Governors that Brazil had decided to […]

The World Is Not Going to Hell in A Handbasket

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Is the World going to hell in a handbasket? (The etymology of this goes back to Revolutionary France in the eighteenth century when guillotined heads fell into a conveniently placed basket.) No, it is not, despite Covid and despite the worldwide unsettling, brought about by the Russian […]

Labour Migration and Climate Justice?

Viewpoint by Carol Farbotko, Taukiei Kitara and Olivia Dun This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. HOBART, GRIFFITH, WOLLONGONG, Australia (IDN) — Migration is a potentially adaptive response to climate change. Adaptive migration responses do not involve only permanent movement away from a climate-vulnerable site; temporary […]

We Need More Equality to Go with Fairness

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Plato, the great scholar of Ancient Greece, said that the differences between rich and poor should not exceed a ratio of one to four. In the eighteenth century the influential writer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gave birth to the notion of the “Social Contract”, argued that the invention […]

About Football-, Pandemic-, Kremlin- and Military Experts

This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf A satirical essay that skewers the age of instant experts  BONN (IDN) — A glance at the analyses and conclusions of just about any major newspaper or news website will confirm: the self-proclaimed military experts […]

From Limits to Growth to Regeneration 2030

Viewpoint by Jeffrey D. Sachs This article was published in Il Sole 24 Ore for the Trento Festival of Economics, June 4, 2022, and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK (IDN) — Fifty years ago, Italian business leaders in the Club of Rome gave a jolt to the world in their path-breaking […]

Cultivating The Flowers of Hope

Viewpoint by Anabella Rosemberg The writer is International Programme Director at Greenpeace International. AMSTERDAM (IDN) — On days like World Environment Day, intriguing, outraging and surprising data about the damage being done to the environment are often shared and spoken of. Too often these stories about our ailing planet only further eco-anxiety and stunt rather […]

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