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GLOBAL ISSUES2016-02-052023-07-10

EU Joins African Union to Honour Two African Scientists

By Ronald Joshua | IDN-InDepthNews Report

ADDIS ABABA (IDN) – The African Union Commission (AUC) has bestowed two distinguished African Scientists with the prestigious Kwame Nkrumah Continental Scientific Awards 2015, sponsored by the European Union since 2009 as a sign of recognition for top African scientists at national, regional and continental levels.

The award is named after Ghanaian nationalist leader and a pan-African who led the Gold Coast’s drive for independence from Britain and presided over its emergence as the new nation of Ghana. He headed the country from independence in 1957 until he was overthrown by a coup in 1966. An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), predecessor of today’s AU.

UN INSIDER2016-02-052023-07-10

ACP Symposium to Focus on Empowering Women and Youth

BERLIN | BRUSSELS (IDN) – The 79-nation ACP Group’s secretariat is joining hands with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN to focus on South-South and Triangular Cooperation to achieve development goals that were adopted by the international community in September 2015 in Agenda 2030.

One such critical goal is rural development that reinforces women and youth empowerment by way of creating jobs and encouraging entrepreneurship. With this in view, the African, Caribbean and Pacific group’s secretariat is organising a symposium in Brussels on February 11-12, under the theme: Integrated Rural Development: Strengthening Women and Youth Empowerment through Jobs and Entrepreneurship.

GLOBAL ISSUES2016-02-052023-07-10

ACP Symposium to Focus on Empowering Women and Youth

By Jaya Ramachandran | IDN-InDepthNews Report

UN INSIDER2016-02-042023-07-10

Devastated Timbuktu Mausoleums Rebuilt

PARIS (IDN) – The Timbuktu mausoleums, destroyed by radical Islamists four years ago, are back on their feet now, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Irina Bokova told the people of Mali on February 4.

The UNESCO chief’s message coincided with a consecration ceremony of the Timbuktu mausoleums, last held in the 11th century, celebrated at the initiative of the local community. It marked the final phase of the United Nations-backed cultural rebirth of the age-old Sahara city after the destruction wrought by radical Islamists in 2012.

SYNDICATION, UNITED NATIONS2016-02-042023-07-12

Devastated Timbuktu Mausoleums Rebuilt

By Anusha Meyer | IDN-InDepthNews Report

UN INSIDER2016-02-042023-07-10

Narcotics Board Calls for Closing the Global Pain Divide

BERLIN | VIENNA (IDN) – About 92 percent of morphine used worldwide is consumed by only 17 per cent of the world population – predominantly in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

While consumption in those countries has increased significantly since the early 1990s and there is growing concern about prescription drug abuse, more than 75 per cent of the people in several low and middle-income countries have no medical access to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

With this in view, the International Narcotics Board (INCB) has warned countries that inadequate access contradicts the notion of article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including the right to medical care, which also encompasses palliative care. This warning comes ahead of the Special Session of the UN General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS), which will take place in New York in April 2016.

SYNDICATION, UNITED NATIONS2016-02-042023-07-12

Narcotics Board Calls for Closing the Global Pain Divide

By Jaya Ramachandran | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

Global Goals2016-02-042023-07-10

Ein machbarer Weg aus chronischer Armut

Von Prof. Kazuo Takahashi *

TOKIO (IDN) – Armutsbekämpfung stand seit den frühen 1970er Jahren auf der Tagesordnung der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Robert McNamara erklärte im Jahr 1973, die Mission der Weltbank sei, die Armut bis zum Jahr 2000 zu beseitigen und drei Jahre später hat der Entwicklungshilfeausschuss (DAC), bestehend aus den weltweit wichtigsten Gebern, den Grundbedürfnisse-Ansatz übernommen. Aber die große Herausforderung für die Entwicklungs-Community ist das Finden einer effektiven Methode, um wesentliche Erleichterungen für die Armen und Bedürftigen zu gewährleisten.

Für einige Zeit wurde diese Frage ideologisch betrachtet, als Wahl zwischen Wachstum und Verteilung. Der letzte Versuch zur Schaffung eines politischen Rahmens aus ideologischer Perspektive war die DAC-Erklärung von 1996: Das 21. Jahrhundert gestalten – Der Beitrag der DAC-Geschäftspolitik zur Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (Shaping the 21st Century: The Contribution of Development Cooperation).

Religion2016-02-032023-07-10

Buddhist Revival in China Fuels Animal Welfare Movement

By Kalinga Seneviratne*

This article is the first in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Feature and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate.

SINGAPORE (IDN | Lotus News Features) – A Buddhist revival in China is fuelling a growing animal welfare movement across the country with the Chinese government poised to revise the decades-old animal welfare act. In January, the National People’s Congress (NPC) started soliciting public comments on four draft laws. One is the revision of the Wildlife Protection Law, which came into effect in 1989.

This law created a system of wild animal breeding permits, issued by what is now called the State Forestry Administration. The belief was that the best way to protect threatened wildlife was by developing a wild animal breeding and training sector. China’s success at breeding captive pandas is the global poster child for the success in this sort of conservation.

DEVNET2016-02-032023-07-10

Geothermal Energy for the Future – “Geo-Max”

This advertorial is part of IDN’s media project jointly with Global Cooperation Council and DEVNET Japan.

TOKYO – The increased occurrence of severe hot weather and record heat waves is creating disastrous situations for many people, but in some areas they do not possess sufficient resources – such as air-conditioning facilities and electricity to run those facilities – for protecting themselves. Solving the lack of access to air-conditioning systems will help thousands of people cope with global warming.