By Muhidin Libah, UN News Feature This feature story told in first person is republished from UN News. Read the original article. NEW YORK (IDN) — After spending years living in UN-supported camps in Kenya, some 220 former refugees from Somalia now work as farmers in the US state of Maine, growing crops ranging from […]
Nuclear Games for the Young Coincides with Tokyo Olympics
By Thalif Deen* NEW YORK (IDN) — The widely-televised Tokyo Olympics, which was inaugurated in the Japanese capital on July 23, wasn’t the only game in town. Coinciding with the opening ceremony, a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), anti-nuclear activists and youth leaders launched “Nuclear Games,” an innovative film and online platform addressing nuclear history […]
A New Global Biodiversity Framework Seeks to Bring ‘Humanity in Harmony with Nature’
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) — The Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has published the first official draft of a new global framework for biodiversity to guide actions to conserve and protect nature and its basic services to humans by 2030. After more than two years of development, the draft […]
From Crossroads to Godzilla: The Cinematic Legacies of The First Postwar Nuclear Tests
Viewpoint by Timothy Noël Peacock Dr Timothy Noël Peacock FRHistS is a Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, founder/co-director of the Arts interdisciplinary Games and Gaming Research Lab (GGLab), and a Visiting Fellow at the British Library Eccles Centre. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the […]
Nigeria: In Quest of An Electoral Law That Works for Voters
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — Kicking the can down the road is government art. Once politicians manoeuvre themselves into office, they govern by repeating the promises they made and hope that problems would go away. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that […]
Transformational Change Alone Can Halt Impending Climate Catastrophe
Viewpoint by John Scales Avery* COPENHAGEN (IDN) — Measurements of the carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere as a function of time have been made ever since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The resulting graph is called the “Keeling Curve”, in honor of Charles David Keeling, who started the monitoring and […]
Honduras Granted USD20 Million OPEC Fund Loan to Help Improve Climate Resilience of Rural Communities
By Reinhard Jacobsen VIENNA (IDN) — The OPEC Fund for International Development has signed a US$20 million loan agreement with Honduras to co-finance the ‘Northeastern Small Producers’ Economic and Social Inclusion Project—PROINORTE’. The importance of the project lies in the fact that the Central American nation’s economy is primarily agricultural, making it especially vulnerable to […]
China Counters Western ‘Hypocrisy’ At UNHRC With Development Rights Push
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY | GENEVA (IDN) — China came out with its guns blazing at the recently concluded 47th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) pointing out western hypocrisy on human rights, by particularly targeting Canada and Australia. China was supported on this counterattack by over 60 developing country members of […]
Russia and China: Geopolitical Rivals and Competitors in Africa
Interview by Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW (IDN) — The growth of neo-colonial tendencies, the current geopolitical developments and the scramble for its resources by external countries in Africa: these are some of the issues researcher and business analyst Lipton Matthews recently discussed with Kester Kenn Klomegah for InDepthNews (IDN). Matthews is associated with Merion West, […]
Anti-Apartheid Activist Who Survived Torture Dies in South Africa
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Trade unionist, anti-apartheid activist and political organizer Norman Levy, survivor of torture and imprisonment in South Africa before spending two decades of exile in Britain, has died in Cape Town, according to relatives. He was 91. He became an activist in his teens and joined […]