Held Racist Views Toward Africa By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK. 27 August 2023 (IDN) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has had anything but a stellar record since stepping down from office more than a decade ago. The 68-year-old has already been convicted twice, once for corruption and influence-peddling involving attempts to […]
UN May Seek Accountability for Saudi Killings of Hundreds of Migrants
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS. 23 August 2023 (IDN) — The United Nations has expressed serious concern over the killings of hundreds of migrants, mostly Ethiopians, crossing war-ravaged Yemen trying to reach Saudi Arabia. “I think trying to stop migration using the barrel of a gun is intolerable,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters on […]
UN Aims to Decolonize 17 Territories Still Dependent on Colonial Powers
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS. 14 August 2023 (IDN) — The military coups in three former French colonies in West Africa—Burkina Faso, Mali, and most recently Niger—have turned the spotlight to one of the UN’s lesser-known mandates: the decolonization of “non-self-governing territories” (NSGTs). Last May, a United Nations forum on decolonization, which took place in […]
New Pact with Tunisia Aims to Combat Deadly Sea Migration
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | TUNIS. 24 July 2023 (IDN) — A memorandum of understanding was signed between the European Union and Tunisia to combat irregular migration that has led most recently to the deaths of 29 migrants from impoverished or war-torn countries seeking a better life in Europe. The memorandum […]
Africans Making Headway in The Ranks of Popular Sports
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK, 26 June 2023 (IDN) — He’ll be playing basketball in Texas, he’s got a wicked grin, and he’s got a name almost as long as he is tall. If you guessed Victor Wembanyama, give yourself a star. He’s the most hotly anticipated basketball prospect in a generation […]
Nations Pledge to Improve Refugee and Migrant Health
By Bernhard Schell RABAT, Morocco, 16 June 2023 (IDN | WHO) — One in eight people worldwide is either a migrant or is forcibly displaced by factors including conflict, persecution, environmental degradation, or the lack of human security and opportunity. With this in view, United Nations member states and several UN agencies have adopted a […]
Widening Inequalities in Economic & Social Lives Continue Worldwide
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 1 May 2023 (IDN) — Speaking during the launch of the Special Edition of the SDG Progress Report, UN Secretary-General António Guterres struck a note of pessimism when he warned that most of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will miss their targets by the 2030 deadline. “Halfway to […]
East African Leaders Clash with West Over Gay Rights and the Environment
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK, 27 March 2023 (IDN) — In defiance of the United Nations, the U.S. and other world government and human rights organizations, the Ugandan parliament has passed a bill imposing the most severe penalties against its gay community – criminalizing lesbians, gays and bisexuals for simply existing. Ugandan […]
Full Pension Rights for France’s Forgotten African War Heroes
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | PARIS (IDN) — A check may soon be on its way for some of the last surviving African soldiers who fought in French wars around the world but were forced to live in France six months of the year in order to qualify for the pensions […]
Putting Anti-racism & Anti-discrimination High on the International Agenda
Viewpoint by Simone Galimberti* KATHMANDU (IDN) — A recent UNESCO Forum provided some impetus to the fight against racism and discrimination, but the level of the problems involved required a much bigger commitment. It is unfortunate that the second edition of the Global Forum against Racism and Discrimination, organized by UNESCO in Mexico City on […]