By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | PRETORIA (IDN) — No lights, no water. Living in South Africa is no picnic today. In his recent State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged crippling power shutdowns, which threaten the country’s economy and security and undermine daily life in the continent’s leading industrial […]
Latin America & the Caribbean Lack Access to Healthy Diet
By Rodrigo Pérez SANTIAGO, Chile (IDN) — As many as 131.3 million in Latin America and the Caribbean have had to forego nutritious foods in 2020 because of the higher average daily cost of healthy diets in the region compared to those in other areas of the world. According to the new United Nations report […]
New Book Tells the Life Story of a Little-Known Swazi Woman Activist
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — To some, she was a towering intellectual, a pioneering African feminist and an anti-colonial political activist. But almost no one knows her name or her story, says Joel Cabrita, a researcher and director of the Center for African Studies at Stanford University and author of […]
Sri Lankan Women Upstage Male Dominance in Trauma Surgery in the US
By Razeena Raheem NEW YORK (IDN) — In a highly-competitive profession dominated largely by men, three young Sri Lankan women in their thirties are making a name for themselves as trauma surgeons specializing in emergency surgeries on people who’ve had a critical injury or illness.
COVID-19, Climate Change, Impunity & Conflicts Aggravating Human Trafficking
By Aurora Weiss VIENNA (IDN) — The COVID-19 pandemic has increased human trafficking using social networks and the Internet as a platform, Lead Author of the UNODC Global Reports on Trafficking in Persons, Fabricio Sarrica, told IDN. He was highlighting some salient aspects of the 2022 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, the seventh […]
Germany’s Gas Import Will Boost Modernisation in Senegal
By Karamba Diaby* BERLIN (IDN) — In Senegal, over 70 per cent of the population still has no access to electricity. This is one of the reasons why the country wants to begin the exploitation of offshore oil and gas fields by the end of 2023. Following his visit to Senegal at the end of […]
How Israel Lost Its Way
By Alon Ben-Meir* This article is one of a series of three; the second one will address how the Palestinians lost their way as well; the third article recommends an urgently needed reality check by both sides to avert catastrophic developments. NEW YORK (IDN) — Seventy-five years after its creation, Israel is now raising the […]
Ukraine: A Full-Scale Attack on Labour Rights
By Georgii Sandul The writer is a lawyer and the director of the NGO Labour Initiatives. International Politics and Society, the Global and European Policy Unit of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin, published this article. KYIV (IDN) — We, Ukrainians, are all living in a state of war. Along with Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, […]
Diplomacy Challenges: Sri Lanka at 75 (Part 2)
By H.M.G.S. Palihakkara The writer is a former Foreign Secretary during Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar’s tenure in office and one-time Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and New York. COLOMBO (IDN) — The proposed reforms in Sri Lanka cannot be ‘unleashed’ on a crisis-ridden people in a rapid-fire single burst like what […]
Diplomacy Challenges: Sri Lanka at 75 (Part 1)
By H.M.G.S. Palihakkara The writer is a former Foreign Secretary during Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar’s tenure in office, and one-time Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and New York. COLOMBO (IDN) — Sri Lanka at 75 is hopefully on course to a stable transition to recovery from a crippling crisis, and then to a […]