News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 105
General Assembly President Calls for a Human-Centered Approach to Disarmament
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (IPS) - The President of the UN General Assembly, Csaba K?rösi, struggled to find a reason to celebrate the 13th International Day against Nuclear Tests. There have only been five nuclear tests, all conducted by North Korea since the day was declared in 2010. Still, K?rösi said he sees a world plagued by more distrust, geopolitical competition, and conflict than before.
Digging Africa Deeper into Hunger; Annual Green Revolution Forum ignores widespread failure of its push for industrialized agriculture
- Inter Press Service
CAMBRIDGE, MA., Aug 29 (IPS) - As the adage goes, when you find yourself stuck in a hole, stop digging. As African leaders and their philanthropic and bilateral sponsors prepare for another glitzy African Green Revolution Forum, convening September 5-8 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, they are instead handing out new shovels to dig the continent deeper into a hunger crisis caused in part by their failing obsession with corporate-led industrialized agriculture.
Hundreds of thousands trafficked into online criminality across SE Asia
- UN News
Criminal gangs in southeast Asia are using torture and abuse to force hundreds of thousands of people into an online scam operation which generates billions of dollars per year, the UN rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday.
Malawi: Truck drivers learn about risks of human trafficking
- UN News
Truck drivers in southern Africa who have been recruited to traffic or smuggle people illegally are learning about the risks involved thanks to the UN drugs and crime agency, UNODC.
Debt & Crisis of Survival in Sri Lanka & the World
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Aug 25 (IPS) - Sri Lanka has been faced with an unprecedented political and economic crisis since the beginning of 2022.
The dominant narrative attributes the crisis to the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine conflict, China’s ‘debt trap diplomacy’ and – most importantly – the corruption and mismanagement of the ruling Rajapaksa family.
International Systems Are Key for Ethiopia's Security and Development Amidst Renewed War
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 23 (IPS) - Less than a year since warring parties in Ethiopia signed a peace agreement, the country is on the brink of renewed bloodshed following escalating hostilities between government forces and the Fano militia in the Amhara region.
Sexual Violence Survivors in Tigray Need Urgent Medical, Psychological and Economic Support
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Aug 22 (IPS) - The war in Tigray, northern Ethiopian, led to sexual and gender-based violence against women, but when Hilina Berhanu Degefa, researcher, gender policy expert and co-founder of the Yellow Movement AAU, appeared before the UN Security Council Open Debate on Sexual Violence in Conflict last year, and catalogued the problems that the victims of the war faced, it didn’t shock the world.
Moving From Trauma to Healing: Practicing Self-Care in Refugee Camps
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 21 (IPS) - A Rohingya woman tells a forum of peer counselors the story of her divorce. A survivor of domestic abuse, she has started a new life alone with her daughter. She has weathered a storm of neighbors telling her she was the problem. Now, she provides the support she didn’t have to other women like her.
Kenya: Cost of Living Protests Met with Police Repression
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Aug 15 (IPS) - Protests against the high cost of living in Kenya have been met with police violence. Talks are currently underway between government and opposition – but whatever results will fall short unless it brings accountability for the catalogue of human rights violations committed in response to protests.
Russia Upstages Neo-Colonialist France in West Africa
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (IPS) - Going back to the 16th century and continuing through the late 1960s, France was described as the world’s second largest colonial power—just behind the British Empire.
As the old saying goes: The sun would never set over the British Empire because God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark. But would that also apply to the French colonial empire?
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