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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.
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.
INPS-IDN spoke with Ambassador Dr. Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Representative of Palestine to the UN Observer Mission of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to the United Nations (UN), and discussed what it means to chair the Group of 77 (G77) comprising 134 nations from around the world, without being a full-fledged member of the UN.
INPS-IDN called on the UN Office for South-South Cooperation's director Jorge Chediek on May 10, 2019.
Watch our video:
Jorge Chediek Speaks About Landmark Progress in South-South Cooperation > https://youtu.be/h5Lyvs_48Kg
Three and a half years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the Vatican's Dicastery and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue hosted from March 7-9, 2019 a three-day International Conference on Religions and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Listening to the cry of the earth and the poor'.
During 2018 INPS Southeast Asia Director and Asia-Pacific correspondent Kalinga was constantly on the road in 2018: giving lectures on mindful communication, teaching radio journalism at PSB Academy in Singapore, coordinating the first Asian Buddhist Media Conclave in New Delhi for the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), visiting grassroots development projects in Thailand and meeting Buddhist communicators in Myanmar.
INPS-IDN has captured in this video celebrations on the occasion of the 160th birth anniversary of Ozaki Yukio (Gakudo) (1858-1954), considered the father of Japan's constitutional democracy. The event was organized by the Ozaki Memorial Foundation at the Parliamentary Memorial Hall on October 19, 2018. Tadamori Oshima, Speaker of the House of Representatives, is honorary Chairperson of the Foundation. Former Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura presides over the Foundation's Board Members.
INPS Group and its flagship agency IDN-InDepthNews Director-General and Ediror-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura, accompanied by INPS Multimedia Director Katsuhiro Asagiri, visited the headquarters of our partner Kazinform International News Agency in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on October 12, 2018.
The Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions is a unique interfaith forum, convened every three years in Astana at the initiative of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. For 15 years, this landmark forum has played an important role in the rapprochement of cultures and civilizations, in searching for answers to the key challenges of our time. “Religious Leaders for a Safe World” was the main topic of the Sixth Congress, which was held October 10-11, 2018 in the capital of Kazakhstan.
