Category: OPINION

Viewpoint by Tariq Rauf* VIENNA (IDN) – It is sometimes said that it is easy to try to herd cats than to get the States parties to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to agree on anything practical! This certainly seems to be the case now, as after dithering for several weeks the earth shaking announcement […]

Viewpoint by Bill Dahl The writer is a former Senior Vice President for Bank of America in Los Angeles, CA. He currently resides in Queretaro, MX. His insightful analysis of global economic affairs have been published widely. He is a contributing columnist for Mexico News Daily, IDN-InDepthNews and Wall Street International Magazine. REDMOND, Oregon, USA […]

Viewpoint by Siddharth Chatterjee and Mutahi Kagwe Mr. Mutahi Kagwe is the Cabinet Secretary for Health in Kenya and Siddharth Chatterjee is the United Nations Resident Coordinator to Kenya. This article was first published in Africa Renewal on 24 March 2020. NAIROBI (IDN) – Many soldiers have seen first-hand the horrors of war and, terrifying […]

Africa Renewal Talks to FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero Cullen NEW YORK (IDN) – The COVID-19 pandemic has put the world on a crisis footing, with unprecedented actions to restrict movements and plans for radical deployment of public funds to combat the threat posed by a novel coronavirus that knows no boundaries. Success will entail […]

Viewpoint by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana. The writer is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCAP. BANGKOK (IDN) – Rising economic prosperity and poverty reduction may not tell the whole story of progress in Asia and the Pacific. Telling signs in the natural world recount a narrative that is far from complete. This year […]

Viewpoint by Alex Broadbent and Benjamin T.H. Smart* JOHANNESBURG (IDN) – Suppose you had the choice between two health policies, A and B. Policy A would result in the death of a lot of elderly people. Policy B would result in the death of a lot of children, especially infants. Which would you choose? Right […]

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) – According to the New York Times, President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is investing more money and resources in an attempt to attract African-American voters than any previous Republican presidential campaign. The Trump camp believe that with eight months of continuous advertising coupled with the opening of field […]

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1882-1945). Viewpoint by Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake* The writer is a cultural anthropologist with research expertise in international political economy, peace, and development studies in South and South East Asia. COLOMBO (IDN) – COVID 19 is […]

Viewpoint by Hobeth Martinez Carrillo* LONDON (IDN) – Four years after the UN-monitored peace agreement that was intended to end more than five decades of civil war in Colombia, the communities that suffered most during the armed conflict may finally be gaining places at the political table. The members of the UN Security Council welcomed […]

Viewpoint by Simone Abram* DURHAM, UK (IDN) – How do you respond to a crisis? It’s obvious that the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been dramatically different to anything provoked by repeated scientific warnings about climate change. The many organisations that declared climate emergencies throughout 2019 and 2020 have so far enacted nothing like […]