By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Siddharth Chatterjee, an eminent Indian national at the world body, as UN “resident coordinator” to China, who has the same rank as an ambassador of a foreign state accredited to that country. The Chinese government’ has formally accepted the UN […]
Thomas-Greenfield Expected as New US Ambassador to the UN
By Mark Leon Goldberg, UN Dispatch NEW YORK (IDN) – Linda Thomas-Greenfield will be nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield is a veteran diplomat who most recently served as Assistant-Secretary of State for African Affairs in the Obama administration. Prior to that she […]
UNAI Celebrates 10th Anniversary Stressing Partnership with Universities Worldwide
By Caroline Mwanga NEW YORK (IDN) – United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), launched in 2010 as an initiative to align colleges and universities with the work of the United Nations, celebrated its 10th anniversary on November 18. The program has more than 1500 members in 147 countries, all applying their academic inquiry, research and innovation […]
Shipwreck Off Senegalese Coast Prods UN to Call for Dismantling Trafficking and Smuggling Networks
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Migrants around the world are continuing their desperate flights for survival even though rescue efforts have slowed, and rich countries are building higher walls against the asylum seekers. The deadliest shipwreck of the year occurred most recently off the coast of Senegal where at least […]
Corporations Morally Obliged to Protect Biodiversity
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – A new report finds that consumers have an increasing awareness of the planet’s biodiversity and want corporations to protect it. They feel that “companies have a moral obligation to ensure that they have a positive impact on people and biodiversity”. However, more than 70 per cent suggested […]
US Pressurizes TPNW Signatories Triggering Uncertainty About Nuclear-Weapons-Free World
By Thalif Deen * NEW YORK (IDN) – Responding to a question, Albert Einstein, the German-born physicist who won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics, predicted rather ominously: “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Einstein, who regretted […]
Financing and Political Will Critical to Avert A ‘Generational Crisis’ Triggered by COVID-19
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – The world is at risk of suffering “a generational catastrophe”, as COVID-19 wreaks havoc on the education of students globally, the Secretary-General António Guterres has warned. In a video message to the UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Global Education Meeting (GEM), on October 22, he […]
Breaking Media Stereotypes with Indigenous Storytelling
By UN Academic Impact NEW YORK (IDN) – There are an estimated 476 million indigenous peoples in the world, living across 90 countries. They speak an overwhelming majority of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages and represent 5,000 different cultures. COVID-19 has posed a grave threat to Indigenous peoples around the world, who already lack access […]
On Way to A Transatlantic Alliance on Digital Governance
A New Social Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’ By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – People around the world are realizing that capitalism driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires crafting a new sort of Social Contract, based on “stakeholder capitalism”, that is, capitalism that benefits everyone. “Such capitalism cannot measure itself […]
In Quest of Data-Based Solutions for A Sustainable Future
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – More than 2,000 participants from the data user and producer communities will discuss in the first-ever fully virtual UN World Data Forum, from October 19-21, some of the greatest data challenges in our fast-changing world. They will identify innovative solutions to intensify cooperation on data for sustainable […]