By Fatou Bensouda The following are extensive excerpts from the International Criminal Court Prosecutor Ms Fatou Bensouda’s statement by video to the UN Security Council on May 5. NEW YORK | THE HAGUE (IDN) – Despite some inevitable limitations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, my Office’s Libya team is forging ahead with its judicial work […]
Limited Progress Achieved in Deterring War Crimes
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) – With a bit more pushing and, after, unfortunately, a bit more killing the three remaining serious wars on the planet, in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen, should come to an end. Then it will be time to take stock on what caused the killing, especially why so many […]
Fake News Is ‘Infodemic’ That Puts Lives at Risk
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – While Americans hotly debate the subject of “fake news,” Africans and others around the world marked a day for reflection on press freedoms in theory and in practice. The theme for this year’s event launched by the UN agency UNESCO was “Journalism without fear or […]
People in the Global South Don’t Need Debt Relief, They Need a New System
Viewpoint by Meera Karunananthan* This article was originally published on openDemocracy. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of IDN-InDepth News OTTAWA (IDN) – “Those who led us into debt were gambling, as if they were in a casino … there is talk of a crisis. No. They […]
Remembering Ludwig van Beethoven – A Genius with a Disability
By Heike Kuhn The writer, Dr Heike Kuhn, is Head of the “Human Rights Gender Equality, Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities” of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Bonn, the capital of divided Germany. The other part of the BMZ is in Berlin, the capital city of unified Germany since 3 […]
Time to End the COVID-19 Fear Psychosis & Militarized Curfews
Viewpoint by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The writer is an anthropologist affiliated with the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Colombo. “The claim that coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines is highly questionable .. there’s little evidence to confirm that premise ..and current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by […]
Manifesto 2020 Calls for A Trans-National Citizens’ Alliance
Viewpoint by Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth BERLIN (IDN) – A new public declaration of policy and aims, Manifesto 2020, has issued a clarion call for declaring poverty Illegal. Poverty Is the product of labour regulation within the context of unequal economic growth. It is the result of global pillage of life in […]
COVID-19: We Need A Vaccine for The Mind
By Kalinga Seneviratne This article is the 40th in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, the flagship of the International Press Syndicate. Click here for previous reports. SYDNEY (IDN) – Today the global media reports daily about the race to develop a vaccine against COVID-19, but what they fail to […]
US Coercive Measures Against Iran Hurting Women
Viewpoint by Azadeh Moaveni and Ali Vaez The two writers are affiliated to the Crisis Group: Azadeh Moaveni is Project Director, Gender; and Ali Vaez is Iran Project Director. This commentary is being republished by courtesy of the Brussels-based Crisis Group which first carried it on 6 March 2020. BRUSELS (IDN) – On 21 May […]
COVID-19: Europe Must Regain Sovereignty Over Key Industries
Viewpoint by Camille Rustici The writer is chief editor of the e-magazine DirectIndustry. This article was first published on the online journal of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung‘s Brussels office, International Politics and Society on April 28. MARSEILLE (IDN) – Since the outbreak in China, which led to the closing of a large number of factories in the […]