A project of the Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group with IDN as the Flagship Agency in partnership with Soka Gakkai International in consultative status with ECOSOC
A Joint Media Project of
the Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group with IDN as the Flagship Agency
and Soka Gakkai International in Consultative Status with ECOSOC
Von Lowana Veal
REYKJAVIK (IDN) – Nach fünf Forschungsexpeditionen auf der Suche nach Kapelanen hat Islands Forschungsinstitut für Meeres- und Süßwasserforschung IMFRI (Marine and Freshwater Research Institute) beschlossen, keine Quote für dieses Jahr zu empfehlen. Das Institut behauptet, dass die globale Erwärmung wahrscheinlich für die Knappheit des Fisches verantwortlich ist.…
Na Kester Kenn Klomegah*
MOSCOW (IDN) – Nchi nyingi za Afrika zinatafuta biashara yenye faida, uwekezaji na biashara badala ya misaada ya maendeleo. Sasa Angola, kusini ya kati ya Afrika, imetangaza mipango ya kampuni kupanua biashara yake ya kitaifa kutoka kwa kununua hadi kwa uundaji kamili wa vifaa vya kijeshi vya Kirusi kwa soko la kusini mwa Afrika, na ikiwezekana maeneo mengine katika Afrika – utambuzi unaokuja wa Kusudi la 16 la Maendeleo Endelevu unaotoa wito wa amani na haki.…
By Rita Joshi
BERLIN (IDN) – A new report has called on Germany and the European Union to convene a United Nations summit on ‘Digitalization and Sustainability’ in 2020 – 30 years after the UN Conference on Environment and Development, widely known as the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
The central theme of the summit should be reaching agreement on the necessary fundamental steps to be taken to achieve digitally supported sustainable development and to avoid the risks involved in digital change, say the authors of the report entitled ‘Towards our Common Digital Future’, presented by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) to Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek and Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze on April 11, 2019.…
By Krishan Dutta
PARIS (IDN) – “Donor countries are not living up to their 2015 pledge to ramp up development finance and this bodes badly for us being able to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals,” OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has cautioned.
The warning of the head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) comes at a time when, according to preliminary data collected by the OECD, official development assistance (ODA) from 30 member countries of the club of rich nations fell 2.7 percent in 2018 from 2017. The worst affected by the declining share were the neediest countries.…
By Sharon Birch-Jeffrey*
NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – To experience a taste of African culture deep inside the Big Apple, visitors – including many Senegalese – turn to Le Petit Senegal (Little Senegal), a West African neighborhood in West Harlem, New York.
African grocery shops, fabric stores, hair braiding parlors and regional restaurants sit shoulder to shoulder along the streets. The Sandaga Market of Little Senegal showcases a strong blend of African cultures, customs and languages, symbolizing efforts by African immigrants to project and protect their cultural identities.…
By Kester Kenn Klomegah*
MOSCOW (IDN) – Many African countries are looking for profitable business, investment and trade rather than development aid. Now Angola, a south-central Africa, has announced corporate plans to diversify its state business away from purchasing to full-fledged manufacturing of Russian military equipment for the southern African market, and possibly other regions in Africa – impeding realization of the Sustainable Development Goal 16 calling for peace and justice. (P02) JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE | SWAHILI
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自分たちに唯一できることは道義と国際公法における原則の問題を解明することだけだと述べて、バチカンが国際連盟からの加盟要請を１９２３年に拒否して以来、多くの月日が流れた。
その後バチカンが国際連合の常任オブザーバー国家になったのは、実に４１年後の１９６４年４月６日のことである。それ以来、４人のローマ教皇（１９６５年にパウロ６世、１９７９年と１９９５年にヨハネ・パウロ２世、２００８年にベネディクト１６世〈当時名誉教皇〉、２０１５年にフランシスコ）が国連総会で演説を行ってきた。…
「持続可能な開発のための２０３０アジェンダ」の履行状況を各国首脳レベルでレビューする９月の「SDGサミット（４年に１度で今回初となる国連総会主催でのハイレベル政治フォーラム）」まであと半年、世界の諸宗教は、「SDGsの履行に対して宗教が成しえる貢献を繋げるようなロードマップや行動計画」を策定するという課題を自らに課している。
ガーナ出身でローマ教皇庁人間開発のための部署の長官を務めるピーター・タークソン枢機卿は、IDNの取材に対して、「これは、（SDGs達成に向けた）気運を高め、新たにグローバルな結束を図っていくために、この共同の『旅』に協力し合って踏み出そうという考え方に基づいています。」と語った。…
By Lowana Veal
REYKJAVIK (IDN) – After five research expeditions in search of capelin, Iceland’s Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (IMFRI) has decided not to recommend a quota for it this year, arguing that global warming is probably responsible for the lack of the fish.
According to Thorsteinn Sigurdsson, head of the Pelagic Division at the institute, capelin (Mallotus villosus) is a cold-water fish and mostly chooses to be at a marine temperature between 1-3°C. “Concomitant with ocean warming north of Iceland before the turn of the century, changes started to appear in the distribution of capelin off Iceland and instead of being spread out to the north of Iceland and the West Fjords, it was mostly found off the east coast of Greenland,” he said. (P01) GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF
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