By Aurora Weiss VIENNA (IDN) — The gender pay gap, inequality in access to education and the labour market: These issues remain pertinent in the 21st century. Achieving full gender equality, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), could take close to 300 years if the current rate of progress continues, noted a report […]
Sri Lanka: Nation Struggles as Noose Tightens
This article was issued by Asian Affairs (London). Viewpoint by Neville de Silva* LONDON (IDN) — Time is running out. Even as this is written, Sri Lanka is desperately canvassing support from within the 47-member UN Human Rights Council (HRC) now meeting in Geneva, to stave off a tougher and hard-hitting resolution that castigates the […]
Indigenous Women Fighting Back for A Future Free of Violence
By Romeo Jara* MANILA (IDN) — Fifteen years and almost nothing much has changed. This is the result of an Amnesty International (AI) report titled “The Never-Ending Maze” about sexual violence towards Indigenous women in the United States as shared by AI USA’s Tarah Demant. On September 14, the International IPMSDL hosted the online discussion […]
Irish Unification, Britain and the Gandhian Path
Viewpoint by Manish Uprety F.R.A.S. and Jainendra Karn Manish Uprety F.R.A.S. is an ex-diplomat & ALCAP’s Special Adviser for Asia & Africa, and Jainendra Karn is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of IDN-InDepth News. […]
Nature Contributes to Economic Prosperity and Well-Being
By Ramu Damodaran The author is Senior Fellow at the New Delhi-based Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP). NEW YORK (IDN) — I was in Athens three years ago this week, on what was to be my last trip outside New York, where I am based, before the pandemic; I have not travelled after […]
The Era of Nuclear Blackmail Must End
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — When the United Nations commemorated the annual International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, the President of the General Assembly (GA) Csaba Kőrösi reminded delegates of the statue of Saint Agnes—”found in the ruins of Nagasaki, charred and mottled from the atomic blast”—and […]
The Great Game in Ukraine is Spinning out of Control
Viewpoint by Jeffrey D. Sachs This article was published in Other News and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK (IDN) — Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski famously described Ukraine as a “geopolitical pivot” of Eurasia, central to both US and Russian power. Since Russia views its vital security interests to […]
University Scientists in El Salvador Research to Protect Biodiversity
By J. Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) — The Cerrón Grande reservoir, the largest water body in El Salvador—and home to over fifteen species of fish and a wide variety of submerged and floating flora—is currently threatened by the accumulation of solid waste, erosion, eutrophication, pollution, and the presence of invasive species. To mitigate these environmental […]
Kazakhstan Could Become “The Switzerland of the 21st Century”
Viewpoint by Dmitry Babich* This article was issued by The Astana Times. NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (IDN) — The 77th General Assembly of the United Nations was characterized by a general feeling of anxiety and alarmism. Some speakers limited themselves to accusations, blaming other members of the “community of nations” for the generally accepted fact that the […]
Brazil Has the Potential to Moving to the First World
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Brazil has long lived out its personal fantasy as the archetypal relaxed, tolerant and gregarious country with Copacabana beach, the samba, the carnival and a great deal of sexual freedom. But, as it was often said when Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva came to power in 2003, […]