By Barbara Crossette, PassBlue - NEW YORK (IDN) – A group of civil society organizations is warning that a growing global movement to decriminalize and rebrand prostitution as “sex work” could lead to more, not less, violence against the world’s most vulnerable women and girls. The critics are petitioning UN Women, which is leading a review of the…

By Maximiliane Koschyk and Austin Davis (DW) - The current situation in Syria “requires a stronger European initiative,” said Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in an interview with DW. A deployment of German troops to the region, however, must be decided by parliament.   Germany calls for international safe zone in Syria Germany’s proposal for the establishment of…

By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS  - When the six much-ballyhooed high-level UN meetings concluded late September, there were mixed feelings about the final outcomes. And civil society organizations (CSOs), who were mostly disappointed with the results, are now gearing themselves for two upcoming key climate summit meetings: COP25 in Santiago,…

By Susan Shapiro and Kenan Trebinčević - The Swedish Academy just blew it big time. Again. After postponing last year’s award due to a #MeToo rape scandal, they promised to mend their male-oriented, Eurocentric ways. Awarding the Nobel in literature and more than $915,000 to the genocide-denying accused misogynist Peter Handke…

(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) NEW YORK – In a series of public disagreements arguing why Austrian writer Peter Handke shouldn’t receive 2019 year Nobel prize for literature one of the best comes from British Guardian, quoting many against. Here is how they put it rightly so: ” Twenty years before Peter Handke would become a…

By David Philips – Turkish war planes and artillery are attacking Kurdish positions in North and East Syria; Turkey’s foot soldiers, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), are massing at the border poised to attack. Terrorism is resurgent under Turkey’s protection. The FSA is a terrorist gang with a sordid history…

By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS  - The UN’s smoldering cash crisis, which has threatened staff salaries and payments to vendors, has triggered strong reactions and rattled the over 6,400 staffers who work in the 39-storeyed Secretariat building in New York. The proposed cuts in spending, which also cover about 37,500…