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Collage: Katsuhiro Asagiri, INPS-IDN Multimedia Director

The High-level Political Forum, United Nations central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, met from July 9-18 at the UN Headquarters in New York. The HLPF 2018 ministerial meeting was convened from July 16-18.

Apart from covering the ministerial meeting, INPS-IDN DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura met with some of the current and former senior officials of the world body, UN and G77 experts, New York-based UN correspondents and some of our partners.

Collage: Katsuhiro Asagiri, INPS-IDN Multimedia Director

INPS-IDN documented the 10th anniversary of the death of Yukika Sohma, the third daughter of Ozaki Yukio, considered as the father of Japanese constitutional democracy. The event was held at the Parliamentary Memorial Hall on July 28, 2018 with over 120 participants.

This event aimed at contributing to the progress of democracy and the Civil Society by introducing organizations engaged in activities while acting on Ms. Sohma's will and deepening exchanges among participants.

Collage: Katsuhiro Asagiri, INPS-IDN Multimedia Director with photos among others from Cia Pak (Scannews).

On February 17, 2018 the Republic of Kosovo celebrated its 10th Anniversary of Independence marking a historic milestone. INPS-IDN joined a UN Media Team from June 23-28 to get to know the landlocked territory in the Balkan Peninsula and the challenges it faces ten years after it declared unilateral independence from former Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the Kosovo War in the whirl and muddle of Yugoslav Wars.

Photo: Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Credit: V. Lebrun-Verguethen

By SWAN

PARIS (IDN | SWAN) – “Are there bookshops in Nigeria?”, asked a French journalist of famous Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, igniting a firestorm on social media following an event in Paris on January 25.

Many outraged observers accused the journalist of racism and ignorance, while lauding Adichie’s response

“I think it reflects very poorly on French people that you have to ask this question. Come on, it’s 2018,” Adichie replied, after the journalist qualified her question by saying French people knew little about Nigeria, apart from hearing about Boko Haram and violence.

Photo: Human rights : Letting values prevail over politics. Credit: The Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue.

By Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement

GENEVA (IDN-INPS) – In response to the protracted migrant and refugee crisis that has affected primarily Europe and the MENA region, a coalition of international organizations took the initiative to adopt the 2017 Geneva Declaration entitled “Mobility and human solidarity, a challenge and an opportunity for Europe and the MENA region” pledging increased cooperation between decision-makers to address the adverse impact of the crisis.

The Geneva Declaration is the fruit of a panel debate entitled “Migration and human solidarity, a challenge and an opportunity for Europe and the MENA region” that was organized by the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue – a think-tank holding special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council - on 14 December 2017 at the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Photo: Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations. Credit: Mitsu (Eric) Kimura, SUA Archivist.

From Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury

Following is the text of the message Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations and Founder of the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace, sent on the occasion of the 90h birthday of Daisaku Ikeda, peacebuilder, Buddhist philosopher, educator, author and poet, and President of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), based in Tokyo.

NEW YORK - My life partner Mariam and I have immense pleasure and deep honor in sending to President Daisaku Ikeda our joyous felicitations and fondly respectful greetings on the occasion of his very auspicious and uniquely significant 90th birth anniversary on 2 January 2018.

Photo: Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury. Credit: International House, Sydney.

By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury

Following are extensive excerpts from the keynote address by Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations at the Gala Culminating Event of the year-round Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the International House (IH) of the University of Sydney on 2 December 2017.*

SYDNEY - It is a distinct honor to be invited as the keynote speaker of the gala culminating event of the year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the International House of the prestigious University of Sydney. I am particularly delighted as this International House – and for that matter all I-Houses in other universities – is a place where students can learn to relate to other people from other parts of the world, respectfully debate differences in values and cultures, learn more about world issues, and really begin to become true global citizens. It is wonderful for me to stand in front of all these flags decorating the podium – looks like the mini-United Nations – there, of course, are 193 flags of countries.

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