By Sean Buchanan This is the fourth in a series of reports highlighting salient aspects of Transparency International‘s latest analysis on challenges posed by corruption around the world as well as successes and failures of efforts targeting a scourge that eats into the vitals of human rights. – The Editor. LONDON (IDN) – In a region […]
Striving to Build a Broader Support for the Nuclear Ban Treaty
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – The second session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference in April and the UN High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament in May will draw the focus of the international community in the coming weeks as it moves toward paving the way for a nuclear-weapons […]
Patchy Progress on Fighting Corruption across Asia-Pacific
By Sean Buchanan This is the third in a series of reports highlighting salient aspects of Transparency International‘s latest analysis on challenges posed by corruption around the world as well as successes and failures of efforts targeting a scourge that eats into the vitals of human rights. – The Editor. LONDON (IDN) – When it comes […]
More Civil Engagement Called for in Eastern, South-East Europe
By Sean Buchanan This is the second in a series of reports highlighting salient aspects of Transparency International‘s latest analysis on challenges posed by corruption around the world as well as successes and failures of efforts targeting a scourge that eats into the vitals of human rights. – The Editor. LONDON (IDN) – When it […]
Erdoğan’s Neo-Ottomanism at a Dangerous Turning Point
By Pier Francesco Zarcone* ROME (IDN) – It is not being dealt with by major media, but there appear to be new and dangerous winds of war about to blow in the eastern Mediterranean. On October 15, 2016, in a speech at the university that (modestly) bears his name, Turkish President Recep Erdoğan outlined some […]
UN Peacekeeping Needs Thorough Reform
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – The new, vicious, fighting in the Congo is the fourth round of warfare since independence in 1960. No other country has seen so many “blue berets” – UN peacekeeping troops – in its short history. The Belgian colonialists may have exploited it and transferred massive amounts of […]
Gifted African Filmmaker Leaves Behind an Impressive Legacy
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Just days before a major retrospective of his cinematic work in Brazil, Idrissa Ouedraogo passed away in his home country of Burkina Faso on February 18. He was 64. “We talked two weeks ago,” said a grieving Janaina Oliveira of Brazil’s Center for Afro-Brazilian and […]
DR Congo Calls Deportation of Refugees by the U.S. ‘Inhumane’
By Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Six nationals of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and two Zambian citizens were sent back to the U.S. after Congolese officials called their deportations “inhumane”. The six arrived on February 21 aboard an American aircraft at Ndjili airport, said Congolese Human Rights Minister Marie Ange Mushobekwa, […]
Mugabe, In Rare Outburst, Slams Former Allies Who Ousted Him
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | HARARE (IDN) – After weeks of silence, former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe came out of his shell and delivered a furious tirade against his one-time party allies who engineered his ouster in November 2017 in an action they called ‘Operation Restore Legacy’. Mugabe, in a rare […]
ACP Group Joins with OCTs to Fight Illegal Fishing and Other Threats to Life Below Water
By Dr Patrick I. Gomes, ACP Secretary-General The following is a slightly modified version of remarks by the ACP Secretary General to the High-Level Forum of Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) and the European Union in Brussels on 23 February 2018 on ‘Engaging the OCTs and SDGs and the Post-Cotonou Process’. – The Editor BRUSSELS […]