News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 148
Realising Women’s Rights Difficult for Africa’s Fragile States
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Mar 06 (IPS) - Pokot girls are expected to face the knife stark naked and with courage. To inspire confidence, their fathers sit a few metres away from them with a spear in hand.
Coronavirus Threatens to Wreck Nuclear Review Conference
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 04 (IPS) - First, it was the ill-fated annual sessions of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), scheduled for March 9-20, which was undermined by the spreading coronavirus COVID-19.
A Multi-Billion Dollar US Mideast Arms Market May be in Jeopardy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 17 (IPS) - When President Saddam Hussein ran one of the world's most authoritarian regimes in the militarily-volatile Middle East during 1979-2003, US newspapers routinely described him as "the strongman of Iraq" — as most journalists rightly view dictators worldwide.
Investigation a Crucial Tool for Preventing Child Rights Violations in Armed Conflicts
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 11 (IPS) - There has been a disturbing increase in violence perpetrated against children in conflicts worldwide, coupled with almost total impunity.
Globalization of Indifference: Ai Weiwei and the Refugee Crisis
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Feb 10 (IPS) - Humans belong to a species that is constantly on the move . Since some Homo Sapiens 125,000 years ago began to move from the African continent, humans can be found all over the world, even in such utterly inhospitable places as the icebound plateaus of Antarctica.
By moving, humans have tried to escape inadequate food-supply or otherwise unacceptable living conditions.
Natural forces have forced them to leave, or even more commonly – violent actions by other humans. With them migrants have brought their means of expression and interaction, some of them expressed through their art.
UNFPA Highlights Need to Address Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women in Crisis Areas
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 07 (IPS) - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is appealing for $683million in their mission to address sexual and reproductive health services for women and girls in conflict areas in the world.
A Humanitarian Response for the Crisis in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Feb 06 (IPS) - Craig Dube*, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, interviews Tahir Ahmad, head of humanitarian operations at Humanity FirstIn November 2019, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food described Zimbabwe – a country once hailed as the bread basket of Africa – as a state on the brink of man-made starvation.
Children are Bearing the Bitter Brunt of Counter-Terrorism Efforts: Report
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 05 (IPS) - Counter-terrorism efforts adopted by governments around the world in response to threats of terrorism are affecting children negatively in numerous ways, a report by Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist) claimed last week.
US Mideast Peace Plan: from a Paper Pharaoh & a Fake Moses
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb 03 (IPS) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu was slapped corruption charges last week while he was hobnobbing with US President Donald Trump in Washington. Bibi has, apparently, done his homework in psychology. He knew the quickest way to get around Trump was to flatter him.
US Mideast Peace Plan: Israelis Offered the Cheese & Palestinians the Holes
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 30 (IPS) - The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem has described the much-ballyhooed US Middle East peace plan as "more like Swiss cheese-- with the cheese being offered to the Israelis and the holes to the Palestinians".
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