Section: Inter Press Service (Italy)
No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, Vows U.N. Chief
A Hibakusha, one of the survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, speaks at a special event commemorating Disarmament Week in October 2011. Credit: UN Photo/Paulo FilgueirasBy Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Aug 6 2015 (IPS)Speaking at a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, Secretary-General Ban...
Opinion: Security Council Resolution on Airlines Disaster Debases U.N. Charter
U.N. Security Council members observe a minute of silence at the start of the meeting to establish tribunal on downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17. The draft resolution failed to be adopted due to the veto by Russia. Credit: UN Photo/Loey FelipeBy Somar WijayadasaUNITED NATIONS, Aug 3 2015 (IPS)On July 29 Russia vetoed a draft U.N. Security...
Opinion: A BRICS Bank to Challenge the Bretton Woods System?
Daya Thussu is Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster in London.By Daya ThussuLONDON, Jul 22 2015 (IPS)The formal opening of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai on Jul. 21 following the seventh summit of the world’s five leading emerging economies held recently in the Russian city of Ufa, demonstrates the speed...
Opinion: Iran Deal Has Far-Reaching Potential to Remake International Relations
Arul Louis, a New York-based journalist and international affairs analyst, is a senior fellow of the Society for Policy Studies. He can be contacted at [email protected] Arul LouisNEW YORK, Jul 20 2015 (IPS)The Vienna agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council acting in concert with Germany...
Children Increasingly Becoming the Spoils of War
Former child soldiers enlisted by Al Shabaab are handed over to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) after their capture by forces of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Credit: UN Photo/Tobin JonesBy Beatriz CiordiaUNITED NATIONS, Jul 14 2015 (IPS)Whether in Palestine, Ukraine or Somalia, wars result in millions of children...
Will the New BRICS Bank Break with Traditional Development Models, or Replicate Them?
The heads of state of three of the five BRICS countries – Russia, India and Brazil – pose for a photograph during the 2014 BRICS Summit. Credit: Official Flickr Account for Narendra Modi/CC-BY-SA-2.0By Kanya D’AlmeidaUNITED NATIONS, Jul 7 2015 (IPS)Just days ahead of a summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies (Brazil, Russia,...
Opinion: BRICS for Building a New World Order?
Daya Thussu is Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster in London.By Daya ThussuLONDON, Jul 1 2015 (IPS)As the leaders of the BRICS five meet in the Russian city of Ufa for their annual summit Jul. 8–10, their agenda is likely to be dominated by economic and security concerns, triggered by the continuing economic...
Chechen Media Outlet Issues Death Threats against Russian Journalist
By Nora HappelJun 12 2015Press freedom groups are condemning veiled death threats against Novaya Gazeta correspondent Elena Milashina by a Chechen online news portal last month.In a May 19 editorial entitled “The United States Uses Pawns”, Mavsar Varayev, deputy editor of the state-sponsored Chechen media outlet Grozny Inform, warned Milashina...
Opinion: Minsk Agreements, the Only Path to Peace in Ukraine
Prof. Aslan Abashidze is the Head of the Department of International Law at Moscow’s Friendship University and a member of the U.N. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva.By Aslan AbashidzeGENEVA, Jun 8 2015 (IPS)The “U.N. Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine”, which was referred to in an Inter Press Service...
The U.N. at 70: A Time for Reflection and Reform
Ambassador Hardeep S. Puri is Vice President of the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York, Secretary-General of the Independent Commission on Multilateralism (ICM) appointed by it and former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations.By Hardeep S. PuriNEW YORK, Jun 5 2015 (IPS)Seventy years since its inception, the United...
