President Trump’s Interest in “Denuclearization” with Russia and China Greeted

WASHINGTON, D.C. | 25 January 2025 (IDN) — The Arms Control Association (ACA) has welcomed President Donald J. Trump’s comments on 23 January at the Davos World Economic Forum on the potential for nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China. ACA executive director Daryl Kimball highlighted in a media release what President Trump said […]

Time to Change Course and the Conversation from Doomsday to Peace Day

By  Alice Slater*, Toward Freedom NEW YORK | 24 January 2025 (IDN) — The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, with the advice of Albert Einstein and other scientists from the Manhattan Project who developed the atomic bomb, established a Doomsday Clock, in 1947, to illustrate the annihilating danger the earth is facing since the creation of […]

The Significance of World Health Organization US President Is Qutting

By Eileen Travers, UN News NEW YORK | 22 January 2025 (IDN) — When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative. Doctors, scientists, presidents and prime ministers urgently convened the International Sanitary Conference […]

Carbon Offsetting in Arid Lands Won’t help Fight Climate Change – Great Green Wall Shows Why?

By Jeremy Allouche and Detlef Müller-Mahn* BONN, Germany | 22 January 2025 (IDN) — Carbon offsetting—the practise where businesses or individuals offset their carbon emissions by investing in environmental projects – is expanding from reforestation projects to tree planting in areas with no history of tree cover, such as semi-arid to arid lands, despite the […]

WHO Appeals for USD 1.5 billion to Tackle Unprecedented Global Health Crisis

By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA | 17 January 2025 (IDN) — The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued 2025 Health Emergency Appeal (HEA), calling for US$ 1.5 billion to support an unparalleled global health crisis, with 305 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Conflict, climate change, epidemics, and displacement have converged to create this […]

Myanmar Four Years After the Coup

By Jan Servaes BANGKOK | 15 January 2025 (IDN) — Almost four years after the February 1, 2021 coup in Myanmar, the military junta’s widespread and systematic abuses against the population—including arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings and aerial bombardments of civilians—amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes. For ordinary citizens, the human rights situation […]

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