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United Nations SDG Media Compact With INPS-IDN As a Member Hits 100-Member Mark

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.

Special Focus on the COVID-19 Pandemic

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.

Collage of photos taken during Ramesh Jaura's week-long visit to Tokyo. Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri | IDN-INPS Multimedia Director.

Reconnecting with Tokyo

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.

Collage of pictures depicting the opening of SGI Exhibition 'Everything You Treasure...' in Kazakhstan and the delegation's visit to Semey by Katsuhiro Asagiri, INPS-IDN Multimedia Director

SGI Anti-Nuclear Exhibition in Kazakhstan, Field Trip to Former Nuclear Test Site

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.

Kazakh First President's Nazarbayev Award, A Field Trip to Former Nuclear Test Site

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.

INPS-IDN Press Trip to Kazakhstan's Semey City & Kurchatova

INPS-IDN Reports on Nazarbayev Award Press Conference

Collage by Katsuhiro Asagiri, INPS-IDN Multimedia Director

INPS-IDN Special Coverage of High-Level Political Forum

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.

Collage with photos from UCA website | INPS-IDN

INPS-IDN Internship Program with the University of Central Asia

We are delighted to have launched an internship programe with the University of Central Asia (UCA) for students from Central Asia from mid-May to mid-August 2019 – at the joint initiative of INPS-IDN Southeast Asia director and roving correspondent in Asia, Kalinga Seneviratne, and Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki, director of the Communication and Media Program at the UCA.

Reporting the 2019 Third PrepCom of 2020 NPT Review Conference at the UN in New York

INPS-IDN provided in-depth video coverage of the final phase of the third session of the preparatory committee from April 29 to May 10, 2019 for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The centrepiece were interviews with experts and activists. These were backed by viewpoints and analysis published by IDN.