By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Fellowships to 180 exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form were announced on April 7 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Chosen from a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2500 […]
Ukraine War: OPCW Keeping a Close Eye on Chemical Weapons Use by Russia
THE HAGUE (IDN) — The Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is monitoring closely the situation in Ukraine. According to the OPCW spokesperson, the Secretariat is concerned by the recent unconfirmed report of chemical weapons use in Mariupol, which has been carried in the media over the past 24 […]
UN’s Goal of Poverty & Hunger Eradication by 2030 is “Highly Unlikely, if not Impossible”
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — A projected rise in global poverty this year—with over a quarter of a billion more people joining the ranks of the world’s poor—threatens to undermine the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the General Assembly back in 2015. One of the primary goals, listed high-up as […]
UN Report Calls for Asia-Pacific to Focus on Inclusive Recovery
By Krishan Dutta BANGKOK (IDN) — With an eye on the continuing uncertainty over the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased global risks, the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific for 2022, has called for anchoring the region’s economic recovery and progress in “a new social contract” of inclusiveness to protect […]
Safeguarding The Blue Pacific from Any Further Nuclear Contamination
By Neena Bhandari SYDNEY (IDN) — The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), the region’s leading political and economic policy organisation, has appointed a panel of global experts on nuclear issues to provide independent scientific and technical advice to Pacific nations in their discussions with Japan over its intentions to discharge treated nuclear wastewater from the Daiichi […]
Ukraine War: Russian Forces Censored at the Security Council
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) — The United Nations Security Council has been told that there is mounting evidence of brutal killings by Russian troops as part of the “special military operation”. The Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. Kateryna Cherepakha, President of the organization La Strada-Ukraine, […]
How the Portuguese Language Countries Are Facing Challenges
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | LISBON (IDN) — After two and half decades of its existence as a popular multilateral forum for Portuguese-speaking countries, the Confederação Empresarial da CPLP has been looking at multifaceted and diverse opportunities to strengthen the organization and to improve mutual cooperation among the member-governments which are geographically located in […]
Putin’s Actions in Ukraine are Vile, But Russia was Sorely Provoked by NATO
This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. Viewpoint by Ramesh Thakur CANBERRA, Australia (IDN) — Resorting to what President Barack Obama called the Washington Playbook of militarised response to a foreign policy crisis, Arta Moeini writes, the ruling elites in the West collude with the mainstream […]
Pakistan’s Political Change ‘Won’t Affect Solid Friendship with China’
Close ties with China ‘a consensus shared by all groups in Pakistan’ This article was issued by Global Times. Viewpoint by Yang Sheng and Liu Caiyu BEIJING (IDN) — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted from office in a no-confidence vote in the country’s parliament on Sunday (April 10), but such a major political […]
If The US Wants, It Can Solve the Ukraine Crisis Tomorrow
This article was originally published by CommonDreams.org under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Viewpoint by Robert Freeman LIVERMORE, CA USA (IDN) — Russia’s assault on Ukraine is an unambiguously bad thing. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum. In order to solve the problem, we have to first understand the context in which it occurred, […]