Global Issues
News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 296
OP-ED: Moving Forward to End Violence Against Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 03 (IPS) - Last year, as rebels captured the main towns in Northern Mali, UN Women registered a sudden and dramatic increase of rapes in the first week of the takeover of Gao and Kidal, in places where most women never report this violence to anyone, not even health practitioners.
Sudan Hits Hard at Female Activists
- Inter Press Service
KHARTOUM, Jul 02 (IPS) - More and more of Sudan's female politicians and rights activists are being arrested and detained in the government's clampdown on opposition political parties.
Fleeing with What’s Most Important
- Inter Press Service
RWAMWANJA REFUGEE CAMP, Uganda, Jul 01 (IPS) - If you were forced to flee your home to survive, what would you take? What could you take? Jean Claude "Van Damme" Ndongizimana, 20, escaped from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with just the bag in which he kept his profits from selling milk and the clothes on his back.
The New Fascism
- Inter Press Service
ALFAZ, Spain, Jul 01 (IPS) - The atrocious Second World War left behind lasting damage by lowering our standards for what is marginally acceptable.
Grapes of Wrath Sour Wine Market
- Inter Press Service
PSAGOT, Occupied West Bank, Jun 29 (IPS) - So much about wine is a boast over its land of origin. The label reads, ‘Product of Israel', but don't let that deceive you. This particular Cabernet Sauvignon is produced in Israeli-occupied territory.
Afghan Refugees Dig Their Heels into Pakistani Soil
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 27 (IPS) - Muhammad Shakoor, 42, calls Pakistan home.
Born in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, he was bundled across the border during the Soviet invasion of his country in 1979 by his family fleeing the chaos of war.
Q&A: Through "My Afghanistan", Rural Afghans Share Their Stories
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 26 (IPS) - A bomb blast on a road. A suicide attack near a grocery store. Such is the uncertainty for ordinary men and women in Afghanistan, where daily life is still marred by violence.
Education in Afghanistan – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Jun 26 (IPS) - Despite impressive advancements in enrolment rates, media reports of gas attacks on girls' schools, shoddy books, and a lack of classroom facilities continue to mar the reputation of the education system in Afghanistan.
Creating Their Own Spring
- Inter Press Service
GIRKE LEGE, Syria, Jun 26 (IPS) - The soldiers of former Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi had left just a few days before, but a group of about 50 children were already singing in the Amazigh language in the village of Yefren, 110 kilometres south of Tripoli. This month will mark two years since the establishment of the first Amazigh school in Libya.
Time Still Not Right for Congolese Refugees to Return
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Jun 21 (IPS) - Tuyisenge*, a former teacher from the Democratic Republic of Congo province of North Kivu, sat on a tree stump watching his fellow refugees go about their lives along the terraces of the hillside Kigeme Refugee Camp in southern Rwanda.
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