By Robert Johnson BRUSSELS (IDN) – Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) regret “the campaign of disinformation” that has led to several countries withdrawing their support from the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). They emphasize that the migration compact is a non-legally binding framework that does not create new […]
Survivors and Activists Spotlight Solutions to End Violence Against Women
By UN Women LOS ANGELES (IDN-INPS) – Commemorating Human Rights Day and the global advocacy campaign “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence”, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) held a fundraising luncheon in Santa Monica, California, on December 10. In the hometown of the #MeToo movement, the event […]
Civil and Political Rights are Also Indivisible Human Rights
Viewpoint by Kalinga Seneviratne SINGAPORE (IDN) – When European gunboats went across the world, Christian missionaries who wanted to “civilize” the people – to whom the Bible was an unknown entity – accompanied the colonizers. Today, when U.S. or NATO missiles rain on countries, Western human rights organisations and their activists follow them, with their […]
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Disarmament Emphasize Need to Combat Climate Change
By Aleksandra Gadzinski KATOWICE (IDN) – Nuclear weapons and climate change are the two major existential threats to the survival of humanity, civilization and the planet Earth. With this in view, in January 2018 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the legendary Doomsday Clock to 2 minutes to Midnight, due to […]
Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change Threaten Human Survival
John Avery interviews David Krieger COPENHAGEN | SANTA BARBARA, CA (IDN) – One of the five “M’s” can trigger a nuclear war any time: malice, madness, mistake, miscalculation and manipulation. “Of these five, only malice is subject to possibly being prevented by nuclear deterrence and of this there is no certainty. But nuclear deterrence (threat […]
Sri Lanka’s Heroic Freedom Struggles of 1818 and 1848 – Part 4
By Dr. Palitha Kohona The author is former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, and former Foreign Secretary. The following is Part 3 of the text of his keynote address delivered at Sri Lanka’s University of Peradeniya, Kandy, on 26 November 2018. – Click here for Part 1, Part 2 […]
Experts Urge Respect for Human Rights in Climate Actions
By Aleksandra Gadzinski KATOWICE (IDN) – Independent experts of the UN Human Rights Council, are calling on States to fully integrate human rights standards and principles in the rules for implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change (the Paris Rulebook) adopted by the international community. In the run-up to the 70th anniversary of the Universal […]
Sri Lanka’s Heroic Freedom Struggles of 1818 and 1848 – Part 3
By Dr. Palitha Kohona The author is former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, and former Foreign Secretary. The following is Part 3 of the text of his keynote address delivered at Sri Lanka’s University of Peradeniya, Kandy, on 26 November 2018. – Click here for Part 1 and Part […]
Gap Widens Between Ambition and Action To Combat Future Climate Risks
By Aleksandra Gadzinski KATOWICE (IDN) – Climate consciousness across the globe is on the rise. But a new report has found a considerable gap between countries’ preparedness for climate change and the actual measures put in place to prepare communities for a future of increasing climate risks. The fourth edition of the UN Environment’s Adaptation […]
Der Mord in Istanbul ist ein Fall zu Gunsten Irans geworden
Von Morteza Raissi BONN (IDN) – Die Lage für Saudi-Arabien zur Lösung des Konfliktes in Jemen und herabsetzen des Problems im Nahen-Osten ist eng geworden. Es ist für die Saudis peinlich ohne sichtbaren Erfolg aufzugeben und so Platz für den gefährlichen Rivalen Iran zu machen. Man versucht die erreichten Koalitionen beizubehalten. Am 2. Oktober dieses […]