By UN Academic Impact NEW YORK (IDN) – Throughout Sudan’s tumultuous history of revolutions against dictatorships, racism, and war, Sudanese women have long been held back from actively participating in politics. To promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, Ahfad University for Women, United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) SDG Hub for Gender Equality, hosted a seminar […]
Bangladesh Buddhists Live in the Shadows of Rohingya Fear
By Kalinga Seneviratne This article is the 35th in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate. Click here for previous articles. COX BAZAAR, Bangladesh (IDN) – Most of Bangladesh’s 1 million Buddhists live in Chittagong (now officially known as Chattogram), Chittagong Hill Tracks and here […]
Tanzania’s Hadzabe Win Climate Change Award
By Kizito Makoye MANYARA, Tanzania (IDN) – At the heart of the Yaeda valley, which sprawls across a wide expanse of plains in Tanzania’s northern Manyara region, live the Hadzabe – a 40,000-year-old tribe who live in the bush. Their livelihoods still depend on hunting and gathering wild fruits, and for many years now, they […]
The Culture of Peace Begins with Each One of Us
Viewpoint by Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury * The writer is the founder of The Global Movement for The Culture of Peace (GMCoP), former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations. ALISO VIEJO, California, USA (IDN-INPS) – My life’s experience has taught me to value peace and equality as the essential components of our existence. […]
African Languages Among the Top Ten Spoken in U.S. Homes
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – If you think you’re hearing more Swahili, Yoruba, Amharic or Twi coming from your neighbour’s home, you’re right! Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau finds African languages are among the top ten fastest growing languages spoken at home in the U.S. The Census […]
Ethiopian ‘Thanksgiving’ Returns as A Joyous Affair
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW York (IDN) – For the first time in 150 years, Ethiopia’s Oromo people celebrated “Thanksgiving” in “Finfinee” – generally known as Addis Ababa. The country’s largest ethnic group turned up in the hundreds of thousands to mark “Ireecha” – a public outdoors event. People gathered around water bodies, […]
Experts Alarmed at Reports U.S. May Exit Open Skies Treaty
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN)— Yet another key arms control treaty – the 1992 Open Skies Treaty – is apparently on the verge of being abandoned by the U.S. and leading arms control and national security experts are warning that If President Donald Trump decides to unilaterally pull the U.S. out of the […]
New Kazakh President Envisions Gradual ‘Transformation’
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | NUR-SULTAN (IDN) – The Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has accentuated the need of “constructive public dialogue” which he defines as “the basis of stability and prosperity” of the country and elaborated wide-ranging plans engulfing all sectors: political, social and economic. In his first major speech nearly three months after bagging […]
Nixon and Trump: The Politics of Impeachment
By George Friedman* | Geopolitical Futures NEW YORK (IDN) – The evolution of the American political system inevitably has an impact on the global system. If the United States shifts direction in even minor matters, there are regional consequences. Political events are difficult to predict, but the key variables of the process can be identified […]
What a Kenyan Senator Attending UN Meeting Experienced in US
By Isaac Mwaura The writer is a Nominated Senator and chairman of the Albinism Society of Kenya. @mwauraIsaac1 mwaura.isa@gmail.com.NEW This article was first published in Standard Digitial. NEW YORK (IDN) – It is Wednesday September 25, 2019, and I am rushing to take my seat at a Kenyan side event on peace, organised by our […]