By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK | BANGKOK (IDN) – Lack of territorial access to the sea, isolation and remoteness from world markets impose constraints on trade competitiveness of the 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) and their overall socio-economic development. In addition to the geographical impediments, LLDCs face challenges linked to high trade and transport […]
UN Chief Careful Not to Finger Point Any Of The P-5
By Erol Avdovic This article is the first in a series of WebPublicaPress Online Magazine’s analyses being published by IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate. UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Where there is no leadership and vision, the people perish – it’s an old saying in different languages around the world. “The first responsibility of […]
International Year Kicks Off To Protect Indigenous Languages
By UN DESA Voice NEW YORK (IDN) – Languages play a crucial role in our daily lives. They also make up our unique cultural identities. Yet, of the about 6,700 languages spoken in the world today, 40 percent are at risk of disappearing. Most of them are indigenous languages. And when a language dies, it […]
Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Sustainable Development: Buddhist Leader Urges Increased Role For Youth
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – The need to accelerate progress toward the abolition of nuclear weapons, encourage youth engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and expand the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) network of universities has been highlighted in a wide-ranging proposal by Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai […]
UN Warns Of The Confluence Of Significant Risks Threatening Global Development
By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA (IDN) – The convergence of several significant risks is endangering efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the universally adopted plan containing 17 specific goals to promote prosperity and social well-being while protecting the environment, a new report has warned. The risks with the potential to severely disrupt […]
Expanding Mediterranean Forest Area Increasingly In Peril
By Jaya Ramachandran ROME (IDN) – The Mediterranean forest area has expanded by two percent resulting in a rise of 1.8 million hectares – about the size of Slovenia, says a joint report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Plan Bleu, Regional Activity Center of UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan. But the […]
New Study Highlights Efforts To End Child Sexual Abuse And Exploitation
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – In Out of the Shadows 2017 thriller, a newly married detective and his pregnant wife move into their dream home unaware of its dark history. When his wife claims their baby is being tormented by a supernatural force and seeks the help of a renegade demonologist, he must […]
Toward Building Organisations of World Public Heritage
By Sean Buchanan This is the second of a two-part report on ‘The Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth’, organised to find a new paradigm that overcomes the political and ideal gap in which we are living. Read Part 1: ‘In Quest Of A Charter Of Humanity‘ here. ROME (IDN) – The seventh report […]
UAE Hosts UNIDO’s Supreme Policy Making Organ in November
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | VIENNA (IDN) – When the Heads of State and Government, Ministers, and other official representatives, gathered in 2013 at the fifteenth session of the General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Peru’s capital Lima, they agreed that eradication of poverty – Goal 1 of UN Sustainable […]
New Agreement Seeks To Resist Powerful Greenhouse Gases
By Devendra Kamarajan NAIROBI (IDN) – A new agreement signed in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, promises to fight global warming. Known as the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, came into force on January 1, 2019. According to UN Environment, it will reduce the projected production […]