News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 254
Contradictions Beset U.N. Response to Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - An internal United Nations expert report released Monday by the non-governmental organisation AIDS-Free World reveals serious contradictions in the U.N.'s reporting of sexual exploitation and abuse by U.N. peacekeepers.
Women Often Forgotten In Cases Of Forced Disappearance
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - Governments must do more to address the impacts of forced disappearances of women, according to an international justice report released Monday.
Middle East Conflicts Give Hefty Boost to Arms Merchants
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - The ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen have helped spiral arms sales upwards to the Middle East, according to a study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
More Fighter Jets in Nicaragua, Second-Poorest Country in the Americas
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, Mar 14 (IPS) - Nicaragua, the second-poorest country in the Americas, is tapping into its depleted coffers to upgrade its ageing military fleet with costly new equipment from Russia – a move that has sparked controversy at home and concern among the country's Central American neighbours.
Meet the 10 Women Who Will Stop at Nothing
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 (IPS) - On Apr. 6, 2013, Nadia Sharmeen, a crime reporter, was assigned to cover a rally organised by Hefazat-e-Islam, an association of fundamentalist Islamic groups in Bangladesh whose demands included a call to revoke the proposed National Women Development Policy.
Feeding a Warmer, Riskier World
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 13 (IPS) - Artificial meat. Indoor aquaculture. Vertical farms. Irrigation drones. Once the realm of science fiction, these things are now fact. Food production is going high tech – at least, in some places.
Humanitarian Aid Under Fire Calls for New Strategies
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Mar 11 (IPS) - In the face of the growing number of crises taking place at the same time worldwide, humanitarian aid organisations – many of which have already reached their financial and logistic limits – are in desperate need of global coordination.
Eighty-Three Percent of Lights Have Gone Out in Syria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) - A single image can be more powerful, more descriptive and more potent than an entire essay – ‘ a picture says a thousand words,' as the cliché goes.
What’s Driving the Merciless Asylum Seeker Policies in Australia?
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, Mar 11 (IPS) - As conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere pushed the number of refugees to 13 million last year, the international community is struggling to shoulder the humanitarian responsibility of protecting those fleeing violence and persecution in their homelands.
First the Taliban, then the Army, now Hunger: The Woes of Pakistan’s Displaced
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Mar 10 (IPS) - A doctor shakes his head in despair as he examines a 10-year-old child at the Jalozai refugee camp, about 35 km by road from Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
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