By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Foreign mining companies extract more than a quarter of the world’s production of rare emeralds in Zambia yet, in some quarters, are alleged to declare losses to make themselves tax exempt. So far, charges of tax evasion filed against Kagem mine, a subsidiary of the […]
UN Chief Careful Not to Finger Point Any Of The P-5
By Erol Avdovic This article is the first in a series of WebPublicaPress Online Magazine’s analyses being published by IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate. UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Where there is no leadership and vision, the people perish – it’s an old saying in different languages around the world. “The first responsibility of […]
Mercenaries Undermine Rule Of Law, Perpetuate Impunity
Viewpoint by António Guterres The following is the text of UN Secretary-General’s remarks to a high-level debate of the Security Council on ‘Mercenary activities as a source of insecurity and destabilization in Africa’ with the Central African sub-region as a focus, under the presidency of Equatorial Guinea for the month of February. Equatorial Guinea President […]
Global Prosperity Rises, Inequality Haunts The U.S.
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Every so often reports emerge that attempt to measure which are the best countries to live in. The Nordic countries plus New Zealand, Holland and Switzerland, usually come out on top. Sweden is number one just for the sheer stability of life and security. Denmark is seen […]
U.S. Hits Ghana With Visa Sanctions In Spat Over Deportees
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and State Department say they will no longer issue visas for certain Ghanaians owing to a “lack of cooperation” by the West African nation – namely its refusal to accept 7,000 Ghanaian nationals that the U.S. wants to […]
Remembering Dumisani Kumalo, Anti-Apartheid Campaigner And South Africa’s Leading Diplomat
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – In an interview for the book No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists Over a Half Century, Dumisani Kumalo recalled the struggle to cut off the U.S. funds that were sustaining the apartheid government of South Africa. “I spoke to more than 1,000 campuses […]
Trashing Treaties: It’s Not Just Trump
Viewpoint by Rick Wayman The writer is Deputy Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. (Twitter @rickwayman) SANTA BARBARA, CA (IDN) – There is no shortage of critics who have pointed out President Donald Trump’s monumental strategic mistake in unilaterally withdrawing the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. It is indeed a […]
Egypt Assumes Presidency Of The Group Of 77 At UN In Vienna
By Reinhard Jacobsen VIENNA (IDN) – While the State of Palestine has in a historic move taken over the presidency of the Group of 77 (G-77) and China at the United Nations in New York, Egypt has assumed the chairmanship of the Vienna Chapter of the largest Inter-Governmental Organization of developing countries in the UN, […]
Next Steps Out Of The INF Treaty Crisis
Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball The writer is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. This article was posted on the Association’s website as an Issue Brief on February 1, 2019. WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) – The Trump administration announced on February 1 that effective February 2, the United States will suspend implementation of the 1987 […]
International Year Kicks Off To Protect Indigenous Languages
By UN DESA Voice NEW YORK (IDN) – Languages play a crucial role in our daily lives. They also make up our unique cultural identities. Yet, of the about 6,700 languages spoken in the world today, 40 percent are at risk of disappearing. Most of them are indigenous languages. And when a language dies, it […]