Gender-Responsive Investments, ODA are of Vital Importance

Viewpoint by Åsa Regnér Following are extensive excerpts from remarks delivered by Åsa Regnér, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women at the session on “the role of inclusive ODA by realizing human rights and gender equality” at the 12th Seoul ODA International Conference in the Republic of Korea, on September 14, 2018. […]

Climate Change: The Devil Is in the Details

Neither Climate Change Deniers Nor Technology Enthusiasts Hold the Key to Addressing Global Warming Viewpoint by Franz Baumann The author is a visiting professor at New York University and a former UN assistant secretary-general, special adviser on environment and peace operations. Dr. Baumann joined the UN Development Program in 1980, began working in the UN […]

Kofi Annan, Paying the Price of Values and Ideals

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 Facebook […]

The Forgotten Saga of Mass Murders in Guatemala

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* Over the years, as a foreign affairs columnist of the International Herald Tribune, the author has made four visits to Guatemala. LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – In 1981 on the editorial page of the New York Times I wrote a column showing that the mass atrocities against the Indian population of Guatemala […]

BIMSTEC Viable, Though SAARC Deadlocked

By Sugeeswara Senadhira The author is Director (Research & International Media), Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. This article first appeared in Ceylon Today on September 3, and is being reproduced with the author’s permission. – The Editor COLOMBO (IDN-INPS) – Sri Lanka, as the new Chair of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and […]

UN Chief Urges Greater Investment in Diplomacy for Peace

By António Guterres Inclusive mediation requires paying greater attention to the gender dimensions of conflict, including conflict-related sexual violence and the gendered impact of decisions around post-war reconstruction, says UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Following are his  remarks, as delivered to the Security Council, to the open debate on the maintenance of international peace and security: […]

Guterres Urges Security Council to Work with Myanmar, Says Rohingya Refugees Lack Life-Saving Assistance

By António Guterres A report released on August 27 by UN investigators accused Myanmar’s military of carrying out mass killings and gang rapes of the Rohingya with “genocidal intent” and called for prosecution of the country’s commander-in-chief, senior General Ming Aung Hlaing, and five generals. On August 28, UN Secretary-General António Guterres spoke “with a […]

U.S. Goes for ‘Space Force All the Way’

Viewpoint by Alice Slater*, The Hill NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – […] Vice-President Mike Pence announced the Trump administration’s plan for a new military command, the U.S. Space Force, emphasizing President Donald Trump’s urging that “It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space: we must have American dominance in space.” Pence’s announcement was greeted […]

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