UN News NEW YORK, 8 March 2023 (IDN) — The UN General Assembly was awash in a sea of blue on Wednesday as some 1,800 people gathered to mark International Women’s Day, which this year focused on the need for inclusive and transformative technology and digital education. Many attendees wore suits, scarves or other items […]
Cholera Vaccination Campaign to Protect Earthquake Victims in Northwest Syria
By Bernhard Schell CAIRO | AMMAN, 8 March 2023 (IDN) — The devastating earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on 6 February caused over 4540 deaths and nearly 9000 injuries in northwest Syria. As the Syria cholera situation report points out, around 90 000 Syrians have been displaced in the northwest and many […]
Jimmy Carter’s Ups and Downs Through Life
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden, 7 March 2023 (IDN) — “The lives of all politicians end in failure”. So said Enoch Powell, a maverick former cabinet minister in the British government. Of recent US presidents, Jimmy Carter has not been alone in being considered “a failure”.
Rich Multis Profiteer While Hunger in Africa Soars
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK, 7 March 2023 (IDN) — Once on the decline, global hunger has reversed course over the last ten years, as multinational food companies increasingly replace domestic production and leave populations “food insecure.” According to a recent Greenpeace International report, food imports from factory farms have jumped 650 […]
A Woman Doctor Gets Top Job at Greenpeace Africa
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK, 7 March 2023 (IDN) — At a time of monumental climate challenges – from floods and pollution to hunger and drought, a legacy organization has tapped Dr Oulie Keita of Mali to lead the continent-wide activist group. The new Executive Director of Greenpeace Africa was chosen after […]
Run Silent! Run Deep! Sink IAEA Safeguards?
By Tariq Rauf* VIENNA, 7 March 2023 (IDN) — Coming up to the eighteen-month mark following the announcement of the AUKUS agreement on the supply of nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continues to struggle to deal with the challenge put up by naval nuclear propulsion […]
Port Moresby Shows Jakarta How It’s Done With 3 PNG Hostages Freed
By David Robie This article was published in Asia-Pacific Report and is being republished with the author’s permission. SUVA, Fiji, 6 March 2023 (IDN) — Two countries. A common border. Two hostage crises. But the responses of both Asia-Pacific nations have been like chalk and cheese.
Films by Women A Standout at Africa’s Famed Film Festival
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | OUAGADOUGOU, 6 March 2023 (IDN) — In the bad old days of French colonial rule, Africans were forbidden from making films. As a result, one of the first films ever produced by an African “Afrique-sur-Seine” (Africa on the Seine), was made in Paris in 1955 by […]
Pacific Islanders Want Japan to Stop Dumping Nuclear Waste into Their Ocean
By Kalinga Seneviratne SUVA, Fiji 6 March 2023 (IDN) — Alarmed at Japan’s plans to dump nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean regional leaders are calling upon the Japanese government to immediately call a stop to such plans. Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources, Jelta Wong, said on Monday (6 March) “there […]
A New UN Treaty Seeks to Protect One-third of World’s Oceans
By J Nastranis NEW YORK, 5 March 2023 (IDN) — After two weeks of tough negotiations at the UN Headquarters in New York, the Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction—better known by its acronym BBNJ—has agreed on a text to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of […]