By Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) The original report by CMC has been slightly modified.- The Editor BRUSSELS | BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (ACP-IDN) – A two-day inter-regional high level consultation on comparative regionalism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP) began here on March 26, 2019 with Barbados underscoring the need for the 79-member grouping to […]
Gender and Corruption: Where Do We Go from Here?
Viewpoint by M. Emilia Berazategui The author is Director of Political Institutions and Government for Poder Ciudadano. Her article was carried by Transparency International. LONDON (IDN) – In a world in which only six countries give women and men equal employment rights, where it will take 108 years to close the gender pay gap, and […]
Not Collusion with Russia but Trump’s Confrontational Policies Threaten Peace
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – President Donald Trump has been exonerated of collusion with Russia. As I wrote a while back, I expected this conclusion from the investigation carried out by Robert Mueller. The big clue lay in Trump’s anti-Russian posture. Trump has continued the expansion of NATO which Russia, more than […]
Aid Slow to Come to the Rescue of Mozambicans Hard Hit by Idai
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Since Cyclone Idai roared into the Mozambican port city of Beira on March 14, devastating losses are mounting exponentially yet international aid has been slow to reach all survivors. Severe flooding produced by Idai’s strong winds and heavy rains caused the rivers Pungwe and Buzi […]
Landmark Report Stresses Importance of South-South and Triangular Cooperation
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK | BUENOS AIRES (IDN) – South-South and triangular cooperation has triggered over decades the vigorous economic growth of countries of the global South such as Brazil, China, India and the Gulf States, and proved to be an important solution for many of today’s development challenges. It should, therefore, be […]
UN Environment Assembly Spells Out ‘The Future We Want’
By Justus Wanzala NAIROBI (IDN) – Global gross domestic product has doubled since 1970, enabling immense progress, and lifting of billions of people out of poverty. At the same time, this economic growth has been fueled by a relentless demand for natural resources. At no point in time nor at any level of income, has […]
Women’s Unpaid Work Needs Factoring In for Fairer ASEAN Economies
By Jose Ramon Albert This article is abridged from a version that appears in the latest issue of East Asia Forum Quarterly, ‘Investing in Women‘. Jose Ramon Albert is a Senior Research Fellow at the Philippine government think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). MANILA (IDN-INPS) – The Philippines and other ASEAN economies are […]
U.S. Threats Against International Criminal Court Under Fire
By Shanta Roy NEW YORK (IDN) – The U.S. threat to penalize and impose economic sanctions against judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) – if they bring charges of war crimes against American troops in Afghanistan – has sparked an avalanche of criticisms from human rights groups, think tanks and civil society organizations (CSOs). […]
The System, Youth and Democracy
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio* ROME (IDN | OtherNews) – If we ever needed proof of how the political system has become self-referential and unable to update itself, the latest student march in more than 1,000 towns is a very good example. Of course, politicians referred to it in declarations and, in a totally demagogic gesture, […]
‘Water for All by 2030’ Remains Little More than a Pious Wish
By Reinhard Jacobsen VIENNA (IDN) – More than 2 billion people live without safe water at home. One in four primary schools have no drinking water service, with pupils using unprotected sources or going thirsty. More than 700 children under five years of age die every day from diarrhea linked to unsafe water and poor […]