Global Issues
News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 249
Syria’s Chemicals Haunt the Mediterranean
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Jul 11 (IPS) - Scientists and local communities are expressing serious concern about the ongoing destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal on board a vessel in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Silent Power of Boycotts to Blockades
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Jul 08 (IPS) - Peruse a few reports on global military expenditure and you will not be able to shake the image of the planet as one massive army camp, patrolled by heavily weaponised guards in a plethora of uniforms.
Liberated Homs Residents Challenge Notion of “Revolution”
- Inter Press Service
HOMS, Syria, Jul 08 (IPS) - Al-Waer, Homs's most populated area and the city's last insurgent holdout, might soon achieve the truce that Hom's Old City saw in May this year when, in an exchange deal, the insurgents left their strongholds.
Single Mothers Battle on in Former War Zone
- Inter Press Service
VALIPUNAM, Sri Lanka, Jul 07 (IPS) - The village of Valipunam, 322 km north of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, occupies one of the remotest corners of the country's former war zone. The dirt roads are impossible to navigate, there are no street lights, telephone connections are patchy and the nearest police post is miles away, closer to the centre of the battle-scarred Mullaitivu district.
Lebanon’s Closed Doors for Palestinian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Jul 06 (IPS) - Tens of thousands of Palestinians living in Syria have been uprooted since the violent government crackdown on the uprising and the ensuing battles that ensnared their communities. For around 50,000 of them, Lebanon was their only safe route out but now it seems this door is being closed on them.
Balkans Still Overshadowed by World War I
- Inter Press Service
BELGRADE, Jul 03 (IPS) - The 100-year anniversary of World War I (1914-18) may have come and gone, but the role of Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip – the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand – remains controversial in the turbulent history of the Balkans. For some he was a terrorist, for others a hero.
Gun Lobbyists, Minus Weapons, Gather at World Body
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 02 (IPS) - When the United Nations hosted its biennial review meeting on the illicit trade in small arms last month, the conference room was overflowing both with pro-gun and anti-gun lobbyists.
Here Are the Real Victims of Pakistan’s War on the Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 01 (IPS) - Three days ago, Rameela Bibi was the mother of a month-old baby boy. He died in her arms on Jun. 28, of a chest infection that he contracted when the family fled their home in Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency, where a full-scale military offensive against the Taliban has forced nearly half a million people to flee.
Trouble Brewing in Kurdish-Controlled Kirkuk
- Inter Press Service
KIRKUK, Iraq, Jul 01 (IPS) - The Kurdish flag is flying high in the wind from the rooftop of an old brick house inside Kirkuk's millennia-old citadel, as Rashid – a stern-looking young man sitting behind a machine gun – monitors the surroundings.
Ethnic Cleansing Goes Unpunished in the ‘Land of the Pure’
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Jun 30 (IPS) - It has been two years since he survived an attack on his life, but 24-year-old Quwat Haider, a member of Pakistan's minority Hazara community, still finds it hard to narrate the events that scarred him for life.
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