News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1080
Tiny Island Nation Pleads for Global Moratorium on New Coal Mines
- Inter Press Service
Opinion: Kerry Going Back Home
- Inter Press Service
BARCELONA, Aug 13 (IPS) - Recovering from a broken femur following a bicycle accident suffered in Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry – former senator and former presidential candidate – is anxious to accelerate his convalescence and will visit Cuba on Friday Aug. 14, where he will hoist the Stars and Stripes flag over the emblematic U.S. embassy building in Havana.
HRW to Honour Six Human Rights Defenders
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, Aug 13 (IPS) - Governments around the world are obliged to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms, regardless of their political, economic and cultural systems, according to the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights. But reality is far removed from international covenants.
Humanitarian Crisis Deepens in War-Torn Yemen
- Inter Press Service
U.N. to Unleash “Power of Education” to Fight Intolerance, Racism
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 12 (IPS) - The United Nations is planning to launch a global campaign against the spread of intolerance, extremism, racism and xenophobia -- largely by harnessing the talents of the younger generation.
Opinion: Crisis, Emergency Measures and Failure of the ISDS System: The Case of Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 12 (IPS) - The investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system has come under increasing criticism in recent years.
Settlement Expansion Largely Responsible for Violence in Occupied West Bank
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (IPS) - Just weeks after an 18-month-old baby was killed in an arson attack in the Palestinian village of Duma, located south of Nablus city in the Occupied West Bank, a United Nations special committee has blasted Israel's policy of settlement expansion, saying it is the root cause of violence towards Palestinians.
Opinion: Time for the World to Protect and Value its Young Human Rights Defenders
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 11 (IPS) - There's a deep irony that as people around the world mark International Youth Day on Aug. 12, hardly any attention will be paid to the shrinking space for young human rights defenders who increasingly find themselves on the receiving end of government repression.
Opinion: Fair Justice Requires Incontrovertible Evidence in Airline Tragedy
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Aug 10 (IPS) - We refer to the IPS article posted by Mr. Somar Wijayadasa, a former Representative at the United Nations.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Mayors Plead for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN/TOKYO, Aug 10 (IPS) - Seventy years after the brutal and militarily unwarranted atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, a nuclear weapons free world is far from within reach.
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