News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 258
U.N. Touts 2015 as Milestone Year for World Body
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) - The United Nations, in a sustained political hype, is touting 2015 as a likely breakthrough year for several key issues on its agenda - primarily development financing, climate change, sustainable development, disaster risk-reduction and nuclear non-proliferation.
Mass Rapes Reported in Darfur as Conflict Escalates
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) - More than 200 Darfurian women were reportedly raped by Sudanese troops in one brutal assault on a town in October 2014, with the conflict in war-torn Darfur escalating to new heights.
Rural Towns in El Salvador Join “War Tourism” Trend
- Inter Press Service
EL PAISNAL, El Salvador, Feb 10 (IPS) - The memory of a priest killed shortly before civil war broke out in El Salvador is so alive in this small town that it is now the main attraction in a community tourist initiative aimed at providing employment and injecting money into the local economy.
OPINION: This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You
- Inter Press Service
SEATTLE, Washington, Feb 07 (IPS) - "Enhanced interrogation": the George W. Bush administration bureaucrats who coined the term had perfect pitch. The apparatchiks of Kafka's Castle would have admired the grayness of the euphemism. But while it sounds like some new kind of focus group, it turns out it was just anodyne branding for good old-fashioned torture.
Sri Lanka Seeks U.S.-U.N. Backing for Domestic Probe of War Crimes Charges
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 06 (IPS) - Sri Lanka's newly-installed government, which has pledged to set up its own domestic tribunal to investigate war crimes charges, is seeking political and moral support both from the United States and the United Nations to stall a possible international investigation.
Battling Terrorism Shouldn’t Justify Torture, Spying or Hangings, Says U.N. Rights Chief
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 05 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is the legal guardian of scores of human rights treaties banning torture, unlawful imprisonment, degrading treatment of prisoners of war and enforced disappearances, is troubled that an increasing number of countries are justifying violations of U.N. conventions on grounds of fighting terrorism in conflict zones.
Kurdish Civil Society Against Use of Arms to Gain Autonomy
- Inter Press Service
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Jan 29 (IPS) - A rupture inside the movement for the creation of an independent state of Kurdistan has given new impetus to the voices of those condemning the use of weapons as the way to autonomy.
Conflict-Related Displacement: A Huge Development Challenge for India
- Inter Press Service
KOKRAJHAR, India, Jan 29 (IPS) - The tarpaulin sheet, when stretched and tied to bamboo poles, is about the length and breadth of a large SUV. Yet, about 25 women and children have been sleeping beneath these makeshift shelters at several relief camps across Kokrajhar, a district in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.
Marginalised Groups Struggle to Access Healthcare in Conflict-Torn East Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
KIEV, Jan 28 (IPS) - With international organisations warning that East Ukraine is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe as its health system collapses, marginalised groups are among those facing the greatest struggle to access even basic health care in the war-torn region.
U.S. Ally Yemen in Danger of Splitting into Two - Again
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 28 (IPS) - When North and South Yemen merged into a single country under the banner Yemen Arab Republic back in May 1990, a British newspaper remarked with a tinge of sarcasm: "Two poor countries have now become one poor country."
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