By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 16 April 2023 (IDN) — The rising military tensions between a nuclear-armed China and a non-nuclear Taiwan is turning out to be an upcoming re-play of the ongoing battle between Russia and Ukraine—a conflict between a nuclear and a non-nuclear country. But any confrontation in Asia will likely favour a […]
Myanmar: International Outrage Without Action?
By Jan Servaes* BRUSSELS, 16 April 2023 (IDN) — February 1 marked two years since Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw, launched a disastrous coup that has plunged the country into an economic slump. The State Administration Council (SAC) military junta continues to struggle to impose its rule across the country, while a coalition of activists and […]
UN Peacekeeping Missions Fail in the Horn of Africa
By Dr Suleiman Walhad* TORONTO, 16 April 2023 (IDN) — The United Nations Organization was set up in 1945. The world had just come out of a bloody war, often dubbed the Second World War. But the world has always been at war, and it could have been the umpteenth war. It was, however, the […]
US Foreign Policy Conflicts with the UN Charter
By Jeffrey D. Sachs* NEW YORK, 15 April 2023 (IDN) — US foreign policy is based on an inherent contradiction and fatal flaw. The aim of US foreign policy is a US-dominated world in which the US writes the global trade and financial rules, controls advanced technologies, maintains militarily supremacy, and dominates all potential competitors. […]
US and Not the Global South Gets Its Way with the UN
By Roger McKenzie Globetrotter produced this article. The writer is the international editor of the Morning Star newspaper. Follow on Twitter at @RogerAMck. LONDON, 15 April 2023 (IDN) — Dag Hammarskjöld, the tragic second United Nations secretary general, once said the organization “was created not to lead mankind to heaven but to save humanity from […]
UN General Assembly Commemorates the Rwandan Tragedy
‘Genocide Can Happen Anywhere By J Nastranis NEW YORK, 15 April 2023 (IDN) — The UN General Assembly commemorated the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It mourned the more than one million children, women, and men who perished in one hundred days of horror—in the presence of […]
Why Several Democratic Countries Do Not Support Ukraine
Some are Shifting Closer to Russia By Jose Caballero Dr José Caballero is a Senior Economist at IMD World Competitiveness Center, International Institute for Management Development (IMD). LAUSANNE, Switzerland, 14 April 2023 (IDN) — After over a year of the Ukraine war, efforts at building a global consensus against Russia seem to have stalled, with many […]
“Communication for All”—An 18th SDG is Needed
By Jan Servaes & Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u * BRUSSELS | CAMBRIDGE, USA, 13 April 2023 (IDN) — The 2030 Agenda for Development or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed by 193 countries in human history. Yet, an explicit role for communication as a dedicated goal […]
Gender Inequalities in Agriculture Cost the World $1 Trillion
By Radwan Jakeem NEW YORK, 13 April 2023 (IDN) — The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is convinced that equalizing the playing field for women in the agriculture and food sectors could boost growth and feed millions. It is estimated that more than one-third of women are employed in agrifood systems, which include food […]
South Pacific: Climate Change Havoc Worries New Zealanders
By Kalinga Seneviratne SUVA, Fiji, 12 April 2023 (IDN) — It is not only the poor island countries of the South Pacific that worry about the future in the midst of climate change. New Zealand—a comparatively rich country—is worried too after devastating floods and cyclonic storms brought destruction to the islands this year.