Viewpoint by Chandra Muzaffar The writer, Dr Chandra Muzaffar, is the President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST). KUALA LUMPUR (IDN) – A dangerous flashpoint has emerged in world politics at the moment. There is widespread fear that the United States and its allies might launch a military operation against Iran at […]
Russia Considers Ways of Boosting Tourism
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW (IDN) – On the eve of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2019), government officials and tourism experts have been looking at systematic ways to remove barriers, adopt marketing strategies to improve the current inbound tourism figures and get effective institutional organizations to promote Russia’s image. The SPIEF-2019, which has […]
ACP-EU Projects Assist Africa to Unlock Innovation Potential
By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE (ACP-IDN) – The world’s first green power generator which can produce electricity using radio frequencies, an electric powered car which does not consume fuel, a multi-fueled helicopter: by any stretch of imagination, innovations like these will not be attributed to an African. But Maxwell Chikumbutso has meanwhile been recognized as an […]
Protect Pristine Areas from Relentless Development
Viewpoint by Dominick A. DellaSala, William J. Ripple and Franz Baumann This article was first published in San Francisco Examiner on May 29, 2019. While Dominick A. DellaSala, Ph.D., is chief scientist for the Geos Institute in Ashland, William J. Ripple, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor of ecology at Oregon State University and the initiator […]
Unlocking Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Global Goals
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – A vibrant and diverse network of students, academics, scientists, researchers, think tanks, and institutions of higher education around the world, serve as incubators of new ideas, inventions and solutions to diverse global challenges, and are therefore vital to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The United Nations […]
Ship Strikes Killing Whales That Survived the Hunters
Viewpoint by Michael Fishbach and Dr Palitha Kohona “Like elephants on land, whales in their watery domain, have claimed our attention now for roughly the same reasons. Ancient, large and driven to the edge of extinction by human greed, we must double our efforts to conserve them,” say the authors of this article. Michael Fishbach […]
Asia-Pacific Failing on Achieving Global Development Goals
By Devinder Kumar NEW DELHI | BANGKOK (IDN) – The leaders and senior government officials, attending the 75th Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) from May 27 to 31 in Bangkok, have called for efforts to advance equality and empowerment for over four billion people across […]
The United Nations Need a Strong and United Europe
Viewpoint by António Guterres The following are extensive excerpts from the Secretary-General’s address on May 30, 2019 in Germany at the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen, the ancient continental capital for the Unity of Europe, close to the French border, where he received the prestigious Charlemagne Prize, awarded each year since 1950, for services towards […]
What Five Years of Modi Rule Mean for the Indian Democracy
Viewpoint by Ram Puniyani This article is the seventh in a series of joint productions of South Asian Outlook and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate. MUMBAI (IDN) – The result of 2019 Lok Sabha polls are out and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has come back to […]
Supporting Local Energy Access Projects Across East Africa
By Radwan Jakeem This article is part of reports by the UN SDG Media Compact of which IDN is a member. NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has repeatedly said that it is time to end the fallacy that subsidizing fossil fuels is a way to improve people’s lives, and has called for […]