By Jaya Ramachandran BERN (IDN) – The global Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has launched its 25th network, SDSN Switzerland, co-hosted by the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern and BIOVISION Foundation, foundation for ecological development, with a view to shaping multi-stakeholder dialogue, fostering sustainable development solutions, and advising decision-makers on […]
UNESCAP, Islamic Development Bank Sign Landmark Agreement
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – One of the world’s largest multilateral development banks, the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), has launched ‘Engage‘, a new digital platform which will promote technological and scientific solutions to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). IsDB President Dr. Bandar Hajjar announced on February 21 the launch […]
Social Development Commission Stresses Global Goals
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – While progress has been achieved in realizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in September 2015, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has warned that “the drop in extreme poverty remains uneven across regions, within countries and between various social groups.” Addressing the opening of the fifty-sixth […]
Ending Persistent Inequality in Africa a Top Priority
Viewpoint by Jean-Luc Stalon Jean-Luc Stalon is UNDP Country Director in Senegal. This article first appeared on January 31, 2018 on Africa Review. – The Editor. DAKAR (IDN-INPS) – The defeat of Keynesianism in the 1980s witnessed an increase in income and social inequalities associated with the domination and monopoly of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism advocates a […]
Australians Mobilise to Stop Indian Coal Project
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) – A peoples’ movement is gathering steam across Australia to stop a project by an Indian company to establish Australia’s biggest ever coal mining project that is supposed to create 10,000 jobs in a remote region of northern Queensland. The protest movement – which distrusts politicians – argues that Australia […]
Experts Stress Acceptance of Headscarf in Abrahamic Faiths
By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA (IDN) – The headscarf that sparks heated debates in Europe is a source of commonality between the three main Abrahamic religions Islam, Christianity and Judaism, according to experts who participated in a debate at the United Nations office in Geneva. The event on February 23 focused on: Veiling/Unveiling: The Headscarf in […]
South Korea Urged to Keep Increasing Development Aid
By Tae Han Goo SEOUL (IDN) – South Korea, often cited as a leading example of how sound economic policies can drive growth and development, blazing a trail from poverty to advanced industrialisation throughout the 1970s and 1980s, will have a greater impact on international development cooperation if it manages to produce a clear plan […]
Beware of Branding Africa as the World’s Most Corrupt Region
By Jutta Wolf This is the first 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. BERLIN (IDN) – Though Africa […]
Scholars Explore Violence in ‘Postcolonial, Neocolonial World’
By A.D. McKenzie LIEGE (IDN | SWAN) – While scholars discussed “Violence in the Postcolonial and Neocolonial World” at a conference in this eastern Belgian city, news of various acts of violence filled the airwaves, underlining the extent to which people have to deal with the issue on a constant basis. The Liège meeting, February 15-16, […]
Trump Breaks Nuclear Taboos, Strives For Supremacy
By Daryl G. Kimball and Kingston A. Reif Daryl G. Kimball is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association and Kingston A. Reif its Director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy. This article appeared as Issue Brief on February 15, 2018 with the caption ‘The New U.S. Nuclear Strategy is Flawed and Dangerous. Here’s Why.’ […]