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Analysts say that the decision of the Indian government to ban wheat exports will deny farmers and traders the opportunity to earn from the global market. Copyright: Yann Forget (CC BY-SA 3.0). This image has been cropped.
Agriculture

India wheat export ban stays despite G7 pressure

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Photo: ICAN Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2017. Credit: Ralf Schlesener
africa

ICAN Successfully Promoting the Nuclear-Weapons Ban in Africa

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Photo: The British destroyer HMS Coventry (D118) underway in the Atlantic Ocean, circa in 1981. In the background is the U.S. Navy frigate USS Bagley (FF-1069). Wikimedia Commons.
latin-america

Malvinas, Falklands and the Lines on the Map for the United Kingdom

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The writer at the Vatican in 2019.
Media&Communication

The Nuclear Threat in the New Information Age

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Image: Irpin, Ukraine, Kutsenko Volodymyr/Shutterstock
global-regions

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

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UNAMID/Hamid Abdulsalam A landscape view of El Geneina town, the capital of West Darfur, Sudan.
africa

Renewed Violence in Darfur Leaves Behind an Unstable Sudan

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Image: French President Emmanuel Macron looks at Beninese art during a ceremony for the return of 26 works to Benin, with Benin Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, at the Quai Branly Museum-Jacques Chirac, Paris, October 27, 2021. Source: WPR.
africa

Africa’s Plundered Artifacts Are Coming Home, Though Gradually

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Image: Migrant logistics centre on the Belarus/Poland border, November 2021 Djordje Kostic/Shutterstock
europe

Double Standards

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Environment

Climate Action Is a Matter of Global Justice

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By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Reparations—a system of redress for egregious injustices—are not a foreign idea imposed from the outside on the United States. On the contrary, the U.S. has given lands to Native Americans, paid $1.5 billion to Japanese Americans interned in the U.S. during World War II, and helped Jews receive reparations for the Holocaust, including making various investments over time. But the U.S. has yet to compensate descendants of Black Americans enslaved for their labour nor has it atoned for the lost equity from segregated housing, transportation and business policy. And no one will forget that American slavery was particularly brutal. Calls for justice are now resounding ever more loudly in the U.S. and around the world. European countries which benefited greatly from wealth stolen in the colonial era are struggling to respond. While several are taking initial steps to return some of what was seized, much more needs to be done. One country that has managed to dodge financial restitution is Germany. Last year, Europe’s biggest economy offered just over $1 billion over 30 years for what Berlin said “from today’s perspective, would be called genocide” of indigenous communities. Much of the stolen wealth is in art and artefacts. More than 90 per cent of the most prominent sub-Saharan African pieces of art are currently outside of the continent, writes Rokhaya Diallo in the Washington Post. To keep such pieces of art on French soil, she noted, France made them untransferable. Pressure from African countries made France acknowledge the unfairness, passing a law to return cultural goods to Benin and Senegal. Madagascar was given back the crown of Queen Ranavalona III, one of the most precious symbols of Malagasy national pride. Last but not least, more than a century after the horrendous genocide perpetrated in Namibia that killed 80 per cent of the Herero and 50 per cent of the Nama population, Germany started a discussion with the Namibian government in 2015 to “heal the wounds” caused by the historical cruelty. A token amount was promised to the Namibian people, after years of activism from Namibian and Black German organizations. But the declaration failed to mention “reparations” or “compensation,” and Germany avoided any direct discussion with the Herero and the Nama. Parliamentarian Inna Hengari called this “insulting.” While Namibian President Hage Geingob’s government accepted the offer, parliament did not, calling it insufficient. The deal is now on hold. “That deal was never about us,” said Nandi Mazeingo, chair of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation. “You kill 80 percent of a community and offer a billion dollars spread over 30 years?” Germany, he said, must talk to communities directly. According to the Namibia Statistics Agency, white farmers own 70 per cent of commercial farmland, while “previously disadvantaged” groups own 16 per cent. “Land is what made (Germans) rich,” Mbakumua Hengari told the Financial Times. “For the Herero and Nama, it was the start of trans-generational impoverishment.” Meanwhile, Uganda has been ordered to pay the Democratic Republic of Congo $325 million for the occupation and plundering of its Eastern province more than 20 years ago—the largest reparation award by an international court for gross violations of human rights and for violations of international humanitarian law. [IDN-InDepthNews – 02 May 2022] Image source: Global Information Network
africa

German Deal with Namibian President on Hold Because Herero and Nama Were Left Out

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