Viewpoint by Bhikkhu Bodhi Tackling global hunger requires that we identify its fundamental causes and remove these at the roots. This necessitates not only the adoption of transformative policies, but a fundamental change in our own values and attitudes, writes Bhikkhu Bodhi. NEW YORK (IDN) — The Buddha teaches that to effectively solve any problem […]
Veteran Journalist Thalif Deen Takes Over as IDN Advisor
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN (IDN) — Veteran journalist Thalif Deen has been appointed IDN-InDepthNews Advisor on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control Issues & Senior Writer at the United Nations. IDN is the flagship of the Non-profit global media agency International Press Syndicate. He has been covering the United Nations since the late 1970s.
Fifteen Countries Ask UN Human Rights Chief To Leave Sri Lanka Alone
By Sugeeswara Senadhira COLOMBO (IDN) — The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet delivered her oral update on Sri Lanka on September 13 at the 46 Session of the UNHRC in Geneva, which went beyond the council’s mandate in commenting on a member country that has not gone unnoticed by at least […]
Germany’s Forgotten Genocide in Namibia
Viewpoint by Adekeye Adebajo Professor Adekeye Adebajo is Director of the University of Johannesburg’s Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation in South Africa. JOHANNESBURG (IDN) — As some world leaders gather in New York for their annual United Nations General Assembly rituals, the September 22 debate on “Reparations, Racial Justice, and Equality for People of […]
UN Assembly President Abdulla Shahid Highlights Hope For Billions Around the World
UN News NEW YORK (IDN) — The incoming President of the General Assembly says that hope is desperately needed for those billions around the world struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, devastation, and strife. In his first major interview, he told UN News that the General Assembly, as the UN’s most representative body, is ideally placed […]
USAID’s Agricultural Transformation for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems
By Henry Prillaman The writer is a student at the University of Virginia and an Intern at the High Atlas Foundation. NAIROBI, Kenya (IDN) — I attended the 2021 pre-summit for the world’s premier forum for African agriculture, the Agricultural Transformation for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems (AGRF). The forum consisted of many great speakers […]
Former Pastoral Nomads Considering In-Place Farming
By Jacqueline Skalski-Fouts The writer is an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia. VIRGINIA, USA (IDN) — North African pastoralism, an agricultural method used for centuries by nomadic people in the steppe highlands, is on the decline. Facing limited grazing land due to overuse and drought, pastoral nomads are favouring more sedentary farming methods […]
Amid Widespread Military Conflicts & Civil Wars, UN Promotes the Virtues of Culture of Peace
By Thalif Deen NEW YORK (IDN)— Since its creation 76 years ago, the United Nations has been preoccupied with one of its primary mandates, namely, maintaining international peace and security. But over the years, that mandate has been extended to include peacekeeping, peace-building, nuclear disarmament, preventive diplomacy, and more recently, a culture of peace.
9/11 Killed It, But Twenty Years on Global Justice Movement Is Poised to Reincarnate
Analysis by Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) — Since the attacks on the United States by 15 Saudi Arabian Islamic fanatics on September 11, 2001 (now known as 9/11) the world has been divided by a ‘war on terror’ with any protest group defined as “terrorists”. New anti-terror laws have been introduced both in the West […]
Suicides, Not Accidents, Are the Biggest Killer in The Construction Industry
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) — It is news, when a worker falls off a construction site and dies, but not necessarily when a construction worker commits suicide. It may be a slow and quiet death, which the employers and the workers’ family may not like to talk about. In the USA, the Centre for […]