By Nour Salman, Emirates News Agency (WAM) ABU DHABI (IDN-INPS) – The UAE capital is set to host the 18th General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNIDO, with the participation of 800 ministers, officials and representatives from 170 member states, revealed Suhail bin Mohammed Faraj Faris Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and […]
India-Pak Nuclear War Would Kick Off Catastrophic Scenarios
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali * FREMONT, California, USA (IDN) – Amid rising tension over Kashmir between the two nuclear neighbors, India and Pakistan, a new U.S. study examines how such an hypothetical future nuclear conflict would have consequences that could ripple across the globe. [Read also New Study Warns of Devastating Global Consequences of an […]
New Study Warns of Devastating Global Consequences of an India-Pakistan Nuclear War
By Daniel Strain * BOULDER, Colorado, USA (IDN) – A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could, over the span of less than a week, kill 50-125 million people—more than the death toll during all six years of World War II, according to new research. A new study conducted by researchers from CU Boulder and […]
World Bank’s Cash Handouts Lift Tanzanians from Poverty
By Kizito Makoye KILOSA, Tanzania (IDN) – Hidaya Juma looks gaunt and weary. Her sun-parched skin and tattered clothes tell it all. She is poor. Juma, a 43-year-old single mother of four, who lives in Kisanga village, Kilosa district, in Tanzania’s eastern Morogoro region, lives in a mud-walled house that is prone to flooding. Her […]
Portugal an Oasis of Social Democracy
Viewpoint by Reinhard Naumann LISBON (IDN-INPS) – Until recently, polls indicated a clear victory for the Socialist Party (PS) in parliamentary elections in Portugal on October 6. Even the absolute majority seemed within reach for the PS under the leadership of current Prime Minister António Costa. At the same time, the liberal-conservative parties, the PSD […]
2015 Agenda 2030 Off-Track
Viewpoint by Carlos Correa The following is statement by Dr. Carlos Correa, Executive Director of the South Centre at the High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 26 September 2019. NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – Four years after its adoption, Agenda 2030, “Transforming Our World,” the United Nations’ […]
ACP Can Become a Political Force to Encourage Multilateralism
By Reinhard Jacobsen BRUSSELS (IDN | ACP) – Ambassadors of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States held on October 4 a Special Session of the ACP Committee of Ambassors (CoA) at ACP House in honour of the visit of Mr Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire. During the Session, the Prime Minister reminded the […]
Advocates for Biafra and Journalists Against Corruption Face Gov’t Crackdown
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – The war may be over in a place called Biafra – a region of states in the southern part of Nigeria – but it remains a flashpoint for ethnic tensions that simmer just below the surface. This September, the leader of the Indigenous People of […]
An ‘Arduous Journey’ Toward the Culture of Peace and Beyond
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – “Let’s Build a Culture of Peace,” exhorted Nobel Peace laureates in an urgent call to “all countries and organizations of the world, their leaders and citizens“, at the 17th World Summit in Mérida, the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán. “In the midst of the […]
Drought Catapults Zimbabwe into a National Disaster
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – In a new low water mark for Zimbabwe’s troubled economy, two million people in Zimbabwe’s capital have now been left without water after the government ran out of foreign currency to pay for imported water treatment chemicals. Zimbabwe’s capital city shut its main water works […]