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1. Kalinga Seneviratne

(Contacts / Board of Directors)

Kalinga Seneviratne, INPS Southeast Asia Director, Dr. Kalinga Seneviratne is a Sri Lanka born journalist, radio broadcaster, television documentary maker and an international communications lecturer. ...

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2. COP27 Agreement (Is it Really?) on Compensation Fund

(Climate Action)

By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) — Welcome to our 15th issue of Sustainable Development Observer, focusing almost exclusively on COP 27—or what is known as the annual UN climatic change conference. ...

Created on 24 November 2022

3. COP 27: The World's Rich Urged to Pay Reparations for Climate Damag

(Climate Action)

By Kalinga Seneviratne SINGAPORE (IDN) — At COP 27 in the Egyptian resort town of  Sharm El Sheikh, the Global South led by Asia and the South Pacific (as well as Africa) are demanding that nature rights ...

Created on 07 November 2022

4. Thailand: Secularism Hinders Buddhists to Address Mental Health Crisis

(Health & Well Being)

By Kalinga Seneviratne BANGKOK (IDN) — Wile the massacre of 37 people that included 26 preschool children in a remote north-eastern township of Thailand on October 7 has shocked the nation and exposed ...

Created on 04 November 2022

5. Manipulations at 'World Fellowship of Buddhists' Conferenc

(Asia-Pacific)

... support at all. He hinted that he would step down from his post when it comes for renewal soon. Dr Kalinga Seneviratne, author of “Empowering from Within: Path to Protect Buddhism in Asia”, who prepared ...

Created on 26 October 2022

6. Child Massacre Exposes Weaknesses in Thai Society

(Asia-Pacific)

By Kalinga Seneviratne BANGKOK (IDN) — The massacre of 37 people, 26 of whom were preschool children taking an afternoon nap in their day-care centre, in a remote north-eastern township of Thailand on ...

Created on 16 October 2022

7. The West Is Exposing Itself to Double Standards by Weaponizing Human Rights

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Kalinga Seneviratne BANGKOK (IDN) — The recently concluded 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva exposed once again the double standards of the global ...

Created on 10 October 2022

8. Warmongering Biggest Threat to Achieving SDGs

(Peace & Justice)

By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) — Welcome to our 13th issue of Sustainable Development Observer, which focuses on warmongering and sustainable development goals, prompted by an event I covered for ...

Created on 09 October 2022

9. Exhibition Educates Youth on Dangers of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Weapons)

By Kalinga Seneviratne NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (IDN) — An exhibition that opened at Keruen Mall, an upmarket shopping centre here on September 16 and continues until the end of the month, uses a novel ...

Created on 25 September 2022

10. Shanghai Organization Could Unite Region’s Big Powers to Drive the Global Economy

(Central Asia)

By Kalinga Seneviratne NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (IDN) — For the first time, the summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) attracted international and regional media attention because ...

Created on 21 September 2022

11. “God” Needs to Make Way for Global Multi-religious Peace Alliances

(Central Asia)

By Kalinga Seneviratne This article is the 50th in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, the flagship agency of the Non-profit International Press Syndicate. Click ...

Created on 19 September 2022

12. Kazakhstan, the Centre of a New Route of Global Relationships?

(Peace & Justice)

By Kalinga Seneviratne NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (IDN) — Pope Francis has raised the prospect of Kazakhstan becoming the centre of a new route connecting the East and West, but this time a route that builds ...

Created on 17 September 2022

13. Religious Leaders Gather to Find Ways to Heal a Wounded World

(Central Asia)

By Kalinga Seneviratne NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (IDN) — "The whole world is experiencing the ongoing impact of the pandemic, conflicts, sanctions, climatic change and other global issues. We all see the ...

Created on 14 September 2022

14. The First Anniversary Issue of Sustainable Development Observer Is Out Now!

(OPINION)

By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) — The 12th and the first anniversary issue of Sustainable Development Observer started by IDN-InDepthNews Southeast Asia with no funding and a lot of passion is out ...

Created on 31 August 2022

15. India Is Moving Up From 'Look East Policy' To 'Act East Polic

(South Asia)

By Kalinga Seneviratne BANGKOK (IDN) — External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has emphasized that India is keenly interested in the countries to its East, spreading right across East Asia into the Pacific. ...

Created on 20 August 2022

16. Land Lease System Threatens Sustainability of Cane Farming in Fiji

(Asia-Pacific)

By Kalinga Seneviratne SUVA, Fiji (IDN) — Though sugar cane is thought to be indigenous to the islands of the South Pacific, it was the British who started to grow it as a cash crop in Fiji in the later ...

Created on 23 July 2022

17. Australian PM Slated for Secret Ukraine Visit Amid Floods Back Home

(Asia-Pacific)

By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) — Australia's new Labour Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, has been criticised on Twitter and some media for secretly making a trip to Ukraine to meet Volodymyr Zelensky ...

Created on 06 July 2022