By Ramesh Jaura with reports from Katsuhiro Asagiri BERLIN | NUR-SULTAN (IDN) – Kazakhstan, widely acknowledged as a leader in nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, has availed of this year’s International Day against Nuclear Tests to honour two eminent advocates of a world free of nuclear weapons. The Central Asian republic was one-time holder of the […]
Kazakh Capital Hosts Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Delegates
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | NUR-SULTAN (IDN) – Representatives of five Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (NWFZs) and Mongolia have been exploring ways of inter-zonal cooperation and further coordination at a seminar in the Kazakh capital, co-organized by the Government of Kazakhstan and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). Inputs from the seminar are expected to […]
Need for Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty’s Entry into Force Reiterated
By Reinhard Jacobsen VIENNA (IDN) – Urgent calls to bring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) into force as a key pillar of the international non-proliferation and disarmament framework marked the International Day against Nuclear Tests 2019 commemorated around the world on August 29 with ceremonies to remember the devastating consequences of nuclear tests. The Day […]
Sochi Summit Expected to Open Russia’s Door to Africa
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW (IDN) – As Sochi, a Russian city located on the Black Sea coast, prepares to host African leaders, experts have been discussing the possible outcome of this first high-level event in the history of Russian-African relations, with the heads of all states of the African continent invited, as well as […]
Kazakh Ratification Marks One Step Closer to Banning the Bomb
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – Kazakhstan, the country where the Soviet atomic bomb was first tested exactly 70 years ago, has become the 26th State party by depositing with the United Nations Secretariat the ratification instrument to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) thus marking one step closer to the […]
Peace Through Jazz Music
The Trumpet Is a ‘Cool’ Instrument to Unite People By Franck Kuwonu from Africa Renewal NEW YORK (IDN) – Each year, on April 30, music lovers around the world celebrate International Jazz Day to “honour jazz and its enduring legacy, as well as its power to bring people together,” says Audrey Azoulay, the director-general of […]
Remembering a Founding Tragedy of Our Modern World
Viewpoint by Ali Moussa The writer is Coordinator of UNESCO’s Slave Route Project. This article first appeared on UNESCO Website on 22 August 2019, a day before the International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolion initiated by UNESCO. PARIS (IDN-INPS) – Among the major crimes that have marked human history, the […]
Grave Concern About US-Russian Actions Evoking Cold War
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – While nuclear experts and peace advocates have expressed heightened concern about the collapse of the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the United States and Russia are trading accusations over breaching commitments and taking actions evoking Cold War era. The Treaty was signed by former U.S. President […]
Reframing the History of Slavery in Angola and the U.S.
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – If the U.S. has 35,000 museums, a writer asked in 2014, why is only one about slavery? And if the wealth of this country was built on the backs of enslaved people from Africa, why has that story been vastly under-reported in our media, in […]
New Climate Reality Is Frightening, But Surmountable
Viewpoint by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana The writer is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). BANGKOK (IDN) – The past five years have been the hottest on record in Asia and the Pacific. Unprecedented heatwaves have swept across our region, […]