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
By Ambassador Kairat Umarov
Kazakhstan assumed the chairmanship of the Group of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) on 8 January for the period 2020-2021. The following are extensive excerpts from the statement of LLDC Chair Ambassador Kairat Umarov, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations in New York, at the First 2020 Meeting of the LLDCs at the Ambassadorial level.…
COP25 Ignored Demands for Climate Justice
Viewpoint by Mary Church*
EDINBURGH (IDN) – The outcomes of the longest ever meeting in the history of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the COP25 negotiations in Madrid – have failed to reflect the urgency of the crisis or any grasp of the real solutions to the climate emergency.
Rather, governments around the world continued to ignore both the undeniable science and the rising tide of peoples’ movements demanding radical action on climate.…
Viewpoint by Michael W. Lodge
The writer is Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), an autonomous international organization established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 1994 Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. ISA headquarters are in Kingston, Jamaica.…
Viewpoint by Andrew Walter*
MELBOURNE (IDN) — The bushfires now ravaging Australia’s flora, fauna and rural communities on an unprecedented scale underline the country’s exceptional vulnerability to global heating and its strong interest in global climate change mitigation and adaptation. Decarbonisation should be taken as an economic opportunity and it could elevate Australia’s leading role in Asia for years to come.…
By Caroline Mwanga
NEW YORK (IDN) – While significant progress in eliminating the practice has been made in the last 30 years, approximately 200 million girls and women alive today have had their genitals mutilated. This can lead to long-term physical, psychological and social consequences, warns a joint statement by UN Women, UNFPA, UNICEF and WHO.…
By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – Bob Dylan in “Blowin’ in the Wind”, one of the ‘Greatest Songs of All Time’, poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. The refrain “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind” has been described as “impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind”.…
Por Devinder Kumar
JAPIPUR (IDN) – Como parte do programa Década de Ação para acelerar soluções sustentáveis para todos os maiores desafios do mundo, desde a pobreza e o género às mudanças climáticas, desigualdade e redução do défice financeiro, as Nações Unidas utilizaram uma nova ferramenta no final de janeiro: o maior festival de literatura do mundo na eminente “cidade rosa” da Índia em Jaipur, capital do cénico, quase mágico estado indiano do Rajastão. É conhecida como a Cidade Rosa devido à cor da pedra usada em muitos dos seus gloriosos palácios e monumentos históricos.…
데빈더 쿠마르 작성
자이푸르 (IDN) – 유엔은 행동의 10년의 일환으로 빈곤과 성에 대한 주제부터 기후변화, 불평등, 빈부격차 해소에 이르기까지 모든 세계 최대의 도전 과제에 대한 지속가능한 해결책을 가속화하기 위해 1월 말에 새로운 장을 마련했습니다. 인도의 ‘분홍 도시’로 알려진 자이푸르는 라자스탄의 수도로서 빼어난 경치를 자랑하는데, 바로 이곳에서 세계 최대의 문학 축제가 열렸습니다. 자이푸르는 다수의 화려한 궁전과 역사적인 기념물에 사용된 돌의 색깔 때문에 분홍도시라는 별칭이 붙었습니다. …
Oleh Devinder Kumar
JAPIPUR (IDN) – Sebagai bagian dari Decade of Action (Jaman Aksi) untuk mempercepat solusi berkelanjutan semua tantangan terbesar di dunia — mulai dari kemiskinan, gender, perubahan iklim, ketidakmerataan, hingga menutup kesenjangan finansial – PBB memanfaatkan alat baru di akhir Januari: festival sastra terbesar dunia di ‘kota merah muda’ India yang terkenal, Jaipur, ibu kota negara bagian Rajasthan yang indah dan hampir magis. Kota ini dikenal sebagai Kota Merah Muda karena warna batu yang digunakan di banyak istana megah dan monumen bersejarah.…
Viewpoint by John Scales Avery *
COPENHAGEN (IDN) – I would like to announce the publication of a book, which deals with the world’s failure to adequately address the existential danger of catastrophic climate change. The book consists mainly of book chapters and articles that I have previously published, although a considerable amount of new material has been added. It can be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link: http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Climate-Change-Means-Lifestyle-Change-John-Scales-Avery.pdf…
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