Politics of fear has replaced politics of possibility - President Higgins

President Michael D. Higgins has said he fears the world has resiled itself "to a politics of fear rather than to the emancipatory promise of the politics of possibility."
Politics of fear has replaced politics of possibility - President Higgins

An Indian girl cries as a medical worker collect her swab sample for COVID-19 test at a rural health center in Bagli, India. Picture: Ashwini Bhatia, AP

In a video address to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations, which will be screened for the UN's High Level Meeting later this evening, President Higgins has said that new thinking and new paradigms of critical thought must be allowed to flourish if the UN's overall objective of sustaining world peace is to be achieved.

He also described the fact that hundreds of millions of people remain locked in avoidable hunger and disease as an affront to our shared humanity.

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