Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – There’s a lot of end-of-the-world hyperbole around on climate change. So there should be. But it blankets out other important causes that are even more imminently important – wiping out malaria and sleeping sickness and introducing pure water supplies, sewerage systems and education for girls – all […]
“China Today Is a Proud Member of the Global Community”
Viewpoint by Wang Yi The following is the statement of Wang Yi, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of The People’s Republic of China, at the General Debate of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 27 September 2019 NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – This year marks the 70th […]
China Rises to an Indomitable Superpower
Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK (IDN) – On October 1, China’s President, Xi Jinping, celebrated 70 years of Communist party rule, and its rise to superpower status, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing that consisted of a military parade and hundreds of thousands of people participating in the event ending with a grand pageant. The […]
UNIDO Conference to Boost UAE as a Global Hub for the 4th Industrial Revolution
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 […]