By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA, 9 June 2023 (IDN) —The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) intend to build stronger and more resilient health systems. With this in view, they signed a new and revised Strategic Framework for Collaboration on June 8. It aims at […]
Nuclear Clouds Over the 38th Parallel
Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. BONN, Germany, 8 June 2023 (IDN) — North Korea has continued to advance its nuclear weapons program and has launched more than 100 missiles since the beginning of 2022, some with intercontinental range. In South […]
The Rise of Popular Protests Around the World
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN, 7 June 2023 (IDN) — Over 400 significant anti-government protests have erupted worldwide since 2017. More than 132 countries were directly affected. Of these, 135 were significant economic anti-government protests. 23 percent of major protests lasted more than three months, according to the Global Protest Tracker of the Carnegie Endowment for […]
Rising Death Toll from Over 50 Conflicts Annually
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 7 June 2023 (IDN) — The death toll from military conflicts worldwide is frighteningly high—over 237,000 battle-related deaths in 2022 alone, mostly from the wars in Ukraine and Ethiopia. The war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region accounted for over 100,000 battle-related deaths in 2022, even more than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […]
How JFK Would Pursue Peace in Ukraine
By Jeffrey D. Sachs* This article was published in Common Dreams and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK, 6 June 2023 (IDN) — President John F. Kennedy was one of the world’s great peacemakers. He led a peaceful solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis and then successfully negotiated the Partial Nuclear Test […]
The Jews Ignore Their History in The Post-Christ Era
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden, 6 June 2023 (IDN) — There are questions that even today the historians don’t seem moved to investigate. Two important ones come to mind. Why was it that Pharaonic Egypt never went to war for hundreds of years until Ramesses 11 became pharaoh in 1303 BC? Isn’t it a fact […]
US Mayors Call for Urgent Action to Avoid Nuclear War
By J Nastranis NEW YORK, 5 June 2023 (IDN) — “We are living in a time of extraordinary nuclear dangers, with all the nuclear-armed states qualitatively, and in some cases quantitatively, modernizing their nuclear arsenals”, observes the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) and calls for “urgent action to avoid nuclear war, resolve the Ukraine […]
Need To Undertake a Comprehensive Study of Nuke-free Zones
Growing importance of NWFZs Viewpoint by Dr. J. Enkhsaikhan The writer is Chairman of Blue Banner NGO and Former Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations ULAANBAATAR, 5 June 2023 (IDN) — Nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) are important and practical regional measures of non-nuclear-weapon states (NNWSs) in promoting the goals of nuclear non-proliferation and strengthening […]
Yemen: How UNDP Is Helping Agriculture and Climate Resilience
By Bernhard Schell* CAIRO, 4 June 2023 (IDN) — Climate change has severely affected agriculture sector in the Western Asian country Yemen, which employs a large number of workers and produces the majority of the country’s food. A weak and fragile economy was further damaged by the country’s eight-year conflict, leaving large swathes of the […]
High-Level Political Forum to Focus on Sustainable Development
By UNDESA UNITED NATIONS, 4 June 2023 (IDN) — “The SDGs are not just 17 lofty goals. They represent real lives with real needs. They represent women and children, young and old, you and me, and a chance to fullfil our potential,” said UN DESA’s Under-Secretary-General Li Junhua. His comment came as the department is […]