Viewpoint by Manish Uprety F.R.A.S. The writer is an ex-diplomat and Special Adviser for Asia & Africa of ALCAP, the Latin American Parliamentary Association of Audio-Visual Communication. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of IDN InDepth News. NEW DELHI (IDN) — Bad news first. […]
Time To Think Again About Abolishing Torture
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Right now, 47 years ago to the day in the autumn of 1975, the corridors of the UN in New York were abuzz with a small army of Amnesty International staff members lobbying countries to agree on a Declaration Against Torture.
Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Sinking the Congressional Dems—and Ukraine
Viewpoint by Jeffrey D. Sachs The proxy war between the U.S. and Russia is devastating Ukraine, ironically in the name of saving Ukraine. This article was published in Common Dreams and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK (IDN) — President Joe Biden is undermining his party’s Congressional prospects through a deeply flawed […]
Will Sunak as Prime Minister Halt Britain’s Slide into Chaos?
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — In a widely shared story earlier this month, The Economist likened the political carnage in Britain to the situation in Italy in the 1940s. Italy was a major theatre of the First World War at […]
And What If Saudi Arabia Were the Owner of Nuclear Missiles?
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — In any body politic there will be a group of powerful people who, if not in the inner circle of the president or prime minister, can win access to it at regular intervals. Security is their profession, and they can be met at discrete academic conferences where […]
Building Tech “Trust and Safety” for a Digital Public Sphere
Viewpoint by Lisa Schirch Toda Peace Institute issued this article, and it is being republished with their permission. Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (IDN) — The first annual “Trust and Safety” conferences took place this week in Palo Alto, California. Tech platform staff from Zoom, Meta, TikTok, and DoorDash met together with researchers studying how to […]
India: Universal Eye Health & Impact of COVID-19
By Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Simi Mehta and Kuldeep Singh NEW DELHI (IDN) — Vision loss and impairment affects more than how people see; it has implications for inequities in employment, healthcare access, and income. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it has been estimated that 80% of vision loss is preventable or treatable. […]
Political Leadership for a Prosperous and Peaceful World
Viewpoint by Manish Uprety F.R.A.S. and Ritesh Tandon Manish Uprety F.R.A.S. is an ex-diplomat & ALCAP’s Special Adviser for Asia & Africa and Ritesh Tandon is the Republican Party’s Congressional Candidate from California’s 17th District. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of IDN-InDepth News. […]
There Is an Alternative to Russo-Ukrainian War
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — By one of those quirks of opportunity, I was able to spend most of the morning of a Good Friday talking with Jose Saramago, that year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a near neighbour to my daughter’s home in the Canary Islands. The writer, who […]
The Fallacy of Tying the Occupation to Israel’s Security
Viewpoint by Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK (IDN) — The opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state by many Israelis is based on national security concerns, which presumably offers a justification for the continuing occupation. The truth is that the occupation itself—not a Palestinian state—poses the gravest danger to Israel’s security.