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'Toward A Nuclear Free World'
This Report is a compilation of independent and in-depth news and analyses by IDN from April 2020 to March 2021. 2020-2021 was the fifth year of the INPS-IDN media project with the SGI, a lay Buddhist organization with headquarters in Tokyo.
But IDN has been a party to the joint project, first launched in 2009 in the wake of an agreement between the precursor of the International Press Syndicate (INPS) Japan and the SGI.
'Target 2045: A New Rallying Call for Nuclear Weapons Elimination' was the theme of a Webinar co-sponsored by the Basel Peace Office, IDN-InDepthNews, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), UNFOLD ZERO and #wethepeoples2020 on November 2. It explored the political value of setting 2045, the 100th anniversary of the United Nations, as the target date by which the global elimination of nuclear weapons should be achieved, if not before.
From UN Sustainable Development Blog
A growing alliance of news and entertainment companies brings focus on the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 crisis to its two-billion-strong audience, says a UN Sustainable Development Blog post, and singles out IDN (In-Depth News) for reporting on how ecosystems and human health intersect.
NEW YORK – The SDG Media Compact, an alliance of news and entertainment companies convened by the United Nations to drive coverage and mobilize action for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), welcomed its 100th member.
From the Chief Editor's Desk
IDN, the flagship of non-profit International Press Syndicate, launched an intensive journalistic coverage focussing on COVID-19 in February 2020. By the end of May 2020, we carried nearly 130 in-depth news features, analyses and viewpoints.
Contributors were from the network of INPS-IDN journalists, other professional journalists and experts from around the world.
Ramesh Jaura, Editor-in-Chief and Director-General of INPS and its flagship agency IDN-InDepthNews, spent five days (24-29 November 2019) to personally reconnect with long-term media partners in Tokyo, the Soka Gakkai International (SGI).
In warm-hearted meetings with Mr. Hirotsugu Terasaki, SGI Director-General, Peace and Global Issues, and Vice President and Chair of the Peace Committee of Soka Gakkai – with whom the first contact was established in 2009 – Ramesh Jaura was accompanied by Katsuhiro Asagiri, INPS Japan President, Multimedia Director of INPS.
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the end of nuclear weapons testing in Semipalatinsk, the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia, and the ratification by Kazakhstan as the 26th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Kazakhstan, widely acknowledged as a leader in nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, has availed of this year’s International Day against Nuclear Tests to honour two eminent advocates of a world free of nuclear weapons.
IDN-InDepthNews, flagship agency of the International Press Syndicate group and its partner, the Global Cooperation Council provided an in-depth extensive coverage of the 2019 High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), from July 9 to July 18, 2019 – including the three-day ministerial meeting from July 16 to July 18, and the High-level Segment of ECOSOC on July 19 in ECOSOC Chamber.
