Global Issues
News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 284
Q&A: Congolese Wrongly Branded as "Pathological"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 (IPS) - Western analysts all too often take a distorted and reductionist approach to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), says Kai Koddenbrock, who analysed more than 50 policy papers for a study published in the journal International Peacekeeping in November 2012.
Syria Diplomacy Helps Shuffle Global Order
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 19 (IPS) - When U.S. President Barack Obama tried to drum up momentum for airstrikes in Syria to punish and deter the use of chemical weapons, he failed to gain much of a following.
Killers Roam Free in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
KOLKATA, Sep 19 (IPS) - When the police finally arrested a man this month in the Nepali capital for the murder of a teenager nine years ago, it became a matter of life and death for Nanda Prasad Adhikari and his wife Ganga Maya.
U.S. Urged to Curb Militarisation in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 19 (IPS) - The United States needs to phase down its drug war and tighten the reins on its cooperation with local militaries and police in Latin America, according to a new report released here Wednesday by three influential think tanks.
Wanted for War Crimes, Sudan's President Threatens U.N. Appearance
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 (IPS) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accused of war crimes and genocide in the politically-troubled Darfur region, is apparently planning to visit New York and address the U.N. General Assembly next week.
OP-ED: High Opportunity for Nuclear Disarmament at High-Level Meeting
- Inter Press Service
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, U.S., Sep 18 (IPS) - Every nation in the world has been invited to participate at the highest political level in the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament scheduled for Sep. 26. This has never happened before. We have never been at such a moment of crisis and opportunity.
U.N. Team Confirms Syria Chemical Attack but Not Culpability
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 16 (IPS) - After an intense investigation of the military attack on civilians in Syria last month, a U.N. team of arms inspectors has reached a predictable conclusion: the deadly attack had all the trappings of the widespread use of chemical weapons.
OP-ED: Making Sense of Syria
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Sep 16 (IPS) - Tarzie Vittachi, a Sri Lankan journalist who in his final years was the bemused occupant of a high United Nations office, once summed up with his characteristic terse wit a central truth about international affairs: "Everything is about something else."
Executions on Hold ‘for the Wrong Reasons’
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 16 (IPS) - The execution of three Taliban men ordered by the courts has been kept on hold - not because the Pakistani government opposes the death penalty but because it fears the Taliban, political leaders say.
OP-ED: Getting Children Into Somalia’s Classrooms
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Sep 14 (IPS) - Somalia is well-known for being a country torn apart by decades of conflict, by hunger and instability. Today, with fragile stability emerging and a new government in place, there is an opportunity to define a new future of peace, prosperity and justice.??
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