Global Issues
News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 253
U.N. Reaches Dead End in Resolving Syrian Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (IPS) - The United Nations has reached a virtual dead end trying to resolve the civil war in Syria - primarily as a result of the stalemate in peace talks and the continued deadlock in the Security Council.
Days After African Leaders Vow to Defeat Boko Haram, Bombings and Terror Continue
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA, May 20 (IPS) - Multiple car bombs killed dozens Tuesday in the central Nigerian city of Jos, Plateau state, days after a security summit in France where African leaders committed to a "war" on Nigeria's Islamist rebels, Boko Haram.
Tibetans Divided Over Cult of Martyrs
- Inter Press Service
DHARAMSALA, India, May 20 (IPS) - Nestled in the Kangra Valley in the shadow of the Dhauladhar Mountains in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamsala is beautiful to behold. But the scenic landscape belies a dark reality: the cult of martyrs that has developed in this town, home to the Tibetan government-in-exile since 1959.
Syrian Rebel-held Mountain Villages Preparing for Bigger Battles
- Inter Press Service
JABAL AL-AKRAD (SYRIA), May 20 (IPS) - In the mountains east of the coastal port of government-held Latakia, three years of regime bombardment has left swaths of blackened stumps in the mountain forests and crumbling concrete structures in Sunni villages, most of whose inhabitants support opposition forces.
The Biggest Mideast Crisis You Probably Don’t Know Enough About
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 20 (IPS) - The Middle East's seemingly endless conflicts are diverting attention and resources from a graver long-term threat that looms over the whole region: the growing scarcity of water. And the situation will get worse before it gets better — if it ever does get better.
OP-ED: Violence Leaves Women, Girls, and Young People on the Edge in South Sudan
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, May 19 (IPS) - As with many conflicts and other humanitarian emergencies around the world, those who suffer the most are women, young girls and children. The current terrible crisis in South Sudan is no exception.
U.N. Decries Water as Weapon of War in Military Conflicts
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 19 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is trying to help resolve the widespread shortage of water in the developing world, is faced with a growing new problem: the use of water as a weapon of war in ongoing conflicts.
Syrian Doctors Grapple With Medical Emergency and Ethics
- Inter Press Service
REYHANLI (TURKEY), May 19 (IPS) - As once-eliminated diseases resurface and barrel bombs and alleged chlorine attacks target civilians, doctors in rebel-held areas and across the border struggle with issues of how best to serve their profession.
Syrian Kurds Ache For A Lifeline
- Inter Press Service
TIL KOCER, Syria, May 18 (IPS) - "We all know that Ankara and Erbil have a joint plan to evacuate the entire region," Abdurrahman Hemo, head of the Kurdish Humanitarian Aid Committee tells IPS. "They want to choke the people here until they flee en masse."
No Silver Lining for Somalia’s Child Labourers
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI/MOGADISHU, May 17 (IPS) - Twelve-year-old Halima Mohamed Ali wakes up every morning at five am, but unlike her peers she does not go to school. Instead, she begins her duties as a nanny for five children, the oldest of whom is just two years younger than she is.
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