Analysis by Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY | 29 October 2023 (IDN) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will arrive in Beijing on 4 November for a much-awaited visit to China, the country’s biggest trading partner. Australia’s wine and barley growers, as well as the tourism and tertiary education sectors, will welcome the visit. Albanese is also […]
Vienna Conference Considers Boundaries and Frontiers in Human Trafficking
By Aurora Weiss VIENNA | 29 October 2023 (IDN) — Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings remains a global phenomenon that requires intensive collaboration between governmental and non-governmental entities. Interdisciplinary cooperation, awareness raising, and proactive efforts on national, regional, and international levels are essential in this context. An effective preventive measure is the professional exchange of […]
Zionism– Apartheid and Racism Morphing into Ethnic Cleaning and Genocide? – Part 2
By Seevali Abeysekera LONDON | 28 October 2023 (IDN) — Basic Law, also known as Nations Law—this apartheid law states that national rights in Israel belongs ONLY to the Jewish people. This was in effect the founding principle in which “the Jewish state” was established. Military law applies to Palestinians living in the occupied territories […]
Zionism — Apartheid and Racism Morphing into Ethnic Cleaning and Genocide? – Part 1
By Seevali Abeysekera* LONDON | 28 October 2023 (IDN) — The barbaric murderous attack on Israel by HAMAS and the equally barbaric, callous and murderous response by Israel has made the world recoil in horror at the complete disregard for innocent human lives by both Hamas and Israel. HAMAS is a brutal Islamist organisation, if […]
Israel-Palestine: India’s Surprising Change of Course
While many countries of the Global South stand by the Palestinians, India is on Israel’s side. Why? By Herbert Wulf* BONN | 27 October 2023 (IDN) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement immediately after the Hamas attack left no room for ambiguity: We are ‘deeply shocked by the news of the terrorist attack in Israel […]
UN Rapporteur Bashes Eritrean Defence Forces for Atrocities in Tigray
BRUSSELS | 27 October 2023 (IDN) — UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Dr. Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, has expressed “great concern” that almost a year after the signature of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA) between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), “Eritrean families continue to […]
Israel-Palestine: There are No Military Solutions
Time for a ceasefire and humanitarian protection of the Gaza Population “You shall love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:19 By Kevin P. Clements* This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. TOKYO | 26 October 2023 (IDN) — The world and the Middle East do not need another […]
Rising Military Conflicts Result in Over 114 million Refugees
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 26 October 2023 (IDN) — The staggering number of military conflicts worldwide—including the most recent in Gaza—continues to rise, resulting in civilian deaths, devastation of cities and villages, along with millions of refugees and widespread famines and food shortages In a report released on 25 October, the UN refugee […]
Gaza Conflict: The Cauldrons We Make
By Tisaranee Gunasekara* “Do not use our death and our pain to bring the death and pain of other people and other families…” Israeli peace activist Noy Katsman (eulogy for his brother Hayim Katsman murdered by Hamas on October 7) COLOMBO | 25 October 2023 (IDN) — Jewish Currents is a US-based leftwing Jewish magazine. […]
The New EU List of Tax Havens: Much Ado About Nothing
By Jan Servaes* BRUSSELS | 25 October 2023 (IDN) — The European Finance Ministers recently revised the European list of tax havens. They added Antigua, Barbuda, Belize and Seychelles to the blacklist and removed the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands and the Marshall Islands. The list includes Russia, Panama, and other […]