Global Issues
News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 151
US “Emergency” Arms Sales to Mideast Nations Under Fire
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 29 (IPS) - When the UN Security Council met last week to discuss the deaths and devastation caused to civilians in ongoing military conflicts and civil wars, the killings in Yemen and the air attacks on hospitals, schools, mosques, and market places—whether deliberate or otherwise-- were singled out as the worst ever.
The Time is Now: End Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 27 (IPS) - It's time to end sexual and gender-based violence once and for all, participants of a two-day conference said.
The UN Has Failed Civilians
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (IPS) - Despite the United Nations Security Council's task of protecting civilians, millions around the world are still being displaced and killed with little to no accountability for perpetrators.
The Contribution of Humanitarian Action to Peace
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, May 22 (IPS) - Peter Maurer in President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)*
The connection of humanitarian action to broader objectives like peace, development and human rights is understandably complex, but it is also an area in which some fresh thinking is important.
Stop The War on Children
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 17 (IPS) - Too many children are dying as a result of explosive weapons, and the international community must step up to protect and declare children off limits in war.
Do We Need a Global Convention of Common Principles for Building Peace?
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, May 17 (IPS) - When the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) concluded a three-day forum on "Peace and Development" on May 16, the primary focus was the daunting challenges threatening global security, including growing military interventions, spreading humanitarian emergencies, forced migration, increasing civil wars, extreme weather conditions triggered by climate change and widespread poverty and conflict-related hunger.
Cameroon Crisis “More Alarming Than Ever”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 16 (IPS) - The United Nations must act to prevent further devastation from the escalating crisis in Cameroon, human rights groups said.
An Urgent Need to Advance Peace
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, May 10 (IPS) - Dr Marina Caparini is a Senior Researcher and Director of the Governance and Society Programme at SIPRI. Her research focuses on peacebuilding and the nexus between security and development.
Let us be blunt: the world is in crisis. Peace, human rights, our planetary ecosystem, and our systems of conflict management and global governance are under enormous strain.
As Fathers Die, Kashmir's Children Become Breadwinners
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India-administered Jammu and Kashmir, May 09 (IPS) - This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group.
Mubeen Ahmad was nine years old when his mother sold him into service to a mechanic for the petty sum of few thousand Indian rupees. His mother had found it hard to support the family after his father, a labourer, was killed during one of the anti-India protests in Jammu and Kashmir in 2008.
From Sanctioning Iran to War?
- Inter Press Service
DENVER, May 08 (IPS) - With the recent military moves announced uncharacteristically by the White House first, the world is witnessing with grim fascination what could turn out to be the early moves towards a war against Iran. How plausible is this scenario and what is likely to happen geopolitically if and when the US belligerence leads to an actual military confrontation with Iran?
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