News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 199
Thousands Still Dying at Sea En Route to Europe
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 15 (IPS) - Amid concerns that 160 people may have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean this week alone, the UN refugee agency have urged countries to offer more resettlement places.
The Reality of North Korea as a Nuclear Power
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (IPS) - With a track record of six underground nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017, North Korea is desperately yearning to be recognized as the world's ninth nuclear power – trailing behind the US, UK, France, China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Israel.
Disasters Bring Upheaval to Sri Lanka’s Rural Economy
- Inter Press Service
PERIYAKULAM/ADIGAMA, Jan 05 (IPS) - Last year was an annus horribilis for 52-year-old Newton Gunathileka. A paddy smallholder from Sri Lanka's northwestern Puttalam District, 2017 saw Gunathileka abandon his two acres of paddy for the first time in over three and half decades, leaving his family almost destitute.
Argentine Soldiers Who Died in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands Rest in Peace
- Inter Press Service
US Faces Collective Defiance at UN Over Jerusalem
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 22 (IPS) - When the UN General Assembly condemned the United States for its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the vote was described as a "collective defiance" of the international community against public threats against the United Nations and its member states by a politically unpredictable and predictably wavering US President.
Our Right of Passage Should be Safe Migration, Not Leaky Boats
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Dec 18 (IPS) - "I'm a migrant, but didn't have to risk my life on a leaky boat or pay traffickers. Safe migration cannot be limited to the global elite." Thus spoke United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in September 2017.
“We Need to Be Strong” – Award Spotlights Courageous Journalists
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 15 (IPS) - As press freedom becomes increasingly limited, journalists are frequently finding themselves in more dangerous predicaments than ever before.
South Sudan: a Nation Tormented by a Crisis
- Inter Press Service
PANYIJAR COUNTY, South Sudan, Dec 14 (IPS) - I come from Panyijar County, South Sudan, just south of where famine was declared in February this year and one of thousands of places badly hit by the conflict which enters its fifth year today. With each year the fighting continues, the hopes that I and my fellow South Sudanese had when voting for independence in 2011 are dimmed.
Arming Poor Countries Enriches Rich Countries
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 (IPS) - Although the Cold War came to an end over a quarter century ago, international arms sales only declined temporarily at the end of the last century. Instead, the United States under President Trump is extending its arms superiority over the rest of the world.
Libya: Up to One Million Enslaved Migrants, Victims of ‘Europe’s Complicity’
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Dec 13 (IPS) - "European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions in Libya," Amnesty International charged in the wake of global outrage over the sale of migrants in Libya.
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