By Yossef Ben-Meir, Emily Oksen, and Kristin O’Donoghue Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir is President of the High Atlas Foundation and Chief of Party of the USAID Religious and Ethnic Minorities Activity Program in Morocco. Emily Oksen and Kristin O’Donoghue are students at the University of Virginia and interns with HAF. MARRAKESCH (IDN) — It is human […]
Report Censures Facebook for Promoting Human Trafficking
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network New York (IDN) — False or misleading posts on Facebook and Instagram are being blamed for enabling human traffickers who recruit African women to be ferried to Saudi Arabia and other countries with promises of visas and jobs. Instead, the women are held captive, denied access to food and […]
Liberia To Mark Year-Long Bicentennial Celebration Beginning January 2022
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network New York (IDN) — On February 5, 1820, the first organized group of emigrating freed slaves departed from New York to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. Next year, Liberia will mark the date with a bicentennial celebration beginning January 2022 and running through December 2022, according to a […]
Tackling Global Hunger at Its Roots
Viewpoint by Bhikkhu Bodhi Tackling global hunger requires that we identify its fundamental causes and remove these at the roots. This necessitates not only the adoption of transformative policies, but a fundamental change in our own values and attitudes, writes Bhikkhu Bodhi. NEW YORK (IDN) — The Buddha teaches that to effectively solve any problem […]
Veteran Journalist Thalif Deen Takes Over as IDN Advisor
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN (IDN) — Veteran journalist Thalif Deen has been appointed IDN-InDepthNews Advisor on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control Issues & Senior Writer at the United Nations. IDN is the flagship of the Non-profit global media agency International Press Syndicate. He has been covering the United Nations since the late 1970s.
Fifteen Countries Ask UN Human Rights Chief To Leave Sri Lanka Alone
By Sugeeswara Senadhira COLOMBO (IDN) — The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet delivered her oral update on Sri Lanka on September 13 at the 46 Session of the UNHRC in Geneva, which went beyond the council’s mandate in commenting on a member country that has not gone unnoticed by at least […]
Sri Lanka’s Valorous Battle Against a Separatist Insurgency
Viewpoint by Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne The writer is former Chief of Defence Staff and Retired from the Sri Lanka Navy COLOMBO (IDN) — The month of August 2006, fifteen years ago was a very eventful month for Sri Lanka Navy. I was the Commandant of Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA) and Flag Officer Naval […]
Germany’s Forgotten Genocide in Namibia
Viewpoint by Adekeye Adebajo Professor Adekeye Adebajo is Director of the University of Johannesburg’s Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation in South Africa. JOHANNESBURG (IDN) — As some world leaders gather in New York for their annual United Nations General Assembly rituals, the September 22 debate on “Reparations, Racial Justice, and Equality for People of […]
UN Session, With Over 110 World Leaders, May be a “Super Spreader” of Covid-19, Warns US
By Thalif Deen NEW YORK (IDN) — The United Nations, perhaps never in its 76-year history, has held a General Assembly session characterized by risks that could trigger the spread of a deadly disease in a city where Covid-19 Delta variant infections are on the rise. In a letter to the 192 UN missions, the […]
A VAT War Between Nigeria’s Federal Govt. and Rivers State
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — The guns of Nigeria’s three-year civil war were silenced 51 years ago, but in the battle for a truly federal state, the echoes of warfare have never been more resonant. On August 10, Rivers State, […]