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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.
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.
Kazakhstan's “Kazinform” International News Agency LLP and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship agency of the International Press Syndicate, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide each other with their news services.
The Vienna UN Conference highlighted actions and challenges linked to the Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) and in the spirit of SDG 17. The Vienna Liaison Office of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) organized the Conference from January 10-12, 2018. It was co-ordinated by Heather Wokusch. She mentored a group of young journalists who produced a series of articles IDN-INPS is delighted to carry.
IDN-INPS covered the Vatican Conference on "Prospects for a World free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament" on November 10-11, the first such gathering organised by the Pope. Apart from giving a glimpse of conference sessions, IDN-INPS Multimedia Director Katsuhiro Asagiri shot video clips of interviews with the Vatican representatives and independent experts.
IDN-INPS joined journalists from various parts of the world on a one-day trip to watch the inauguration of the Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank Storage Facility of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant (UMP) in Ust-Kamenogorsk, also known as Oskemen, in East Kazakhstan region on August 28.
Deputy Foreign Minister Roman Vassilenko explains at length Kazakhstan's modernization plans aimed, among others, at developing the Kazakh language, making the young generation trilingual, and switching over from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet by 2025.
Tariq Rauf, former Director of SIPRI’s Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme, explains in an interview with IDN-INPS Editor-in-Chief the 'old' and 'new' nuclear dangers confronting the world, and reveals how and why the 65-nation UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva remains blocked for nearly two decades.
Former UN Under-Secretary-General and outgoing Pugwash Conference President Jayantha Dhanapala explains 'old' and 'new' nuclear dangers the world is confronted with.
