News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 309
OP-ED: Collapsism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (IPS) - U.S policymakers indulge in a variety of child's play called collapsism. They close their eyes when they want a particularly despised adversary to go away. And poof! Kim Jong Eun's North Korea eventually disappears. Raul Castro's Cuba eventually vanishes.
Afghan Families Want Accountability, Not Apologies
- Inter Press Service
SARACHA, Afghanistan, Oct 17 (IPS) - The dusty cemetery in Saracha village hosts three new graves: small hills of soil shielding the bodies of Sahebullah, Wasihullah and Amanullah, three of the five boys and young men killed by an ISAF-NATO airstrike on late Friday, Oct. 4.
When the Missing Don't Return
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO/KATHMANDU, Oct 17 (IPS) - Some call it ‘frozen loss,' a point in time that families and relatives find almost impossible to extricate themselves out of, even years after their loved ones have disappeared.
Activists Struggle to Recover Human Rights Archives
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Oct 16 (IPS) - Some 50,000 files on crimes against humanity are languishing in an undisclosed location in El Salvador, prey to damp and the ravages of time, while activists and lawyers frantically try to regain control over them.
Grief Veils Eid for Syrian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
SIDON, Lebanon, Oct 16 (IPS) - This week the Islamic world marks one of its holiest holidays, Eid al-Adha - honouring Ibrahim's commitment to sacrifice his first-born son to Allah. The festival involves large family gatherings, bountiful lunches and generous gift giving.
Russia May Do Better Than its Nuclear Rhetoric
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Oct 16 (IPS) - Despite a seemingly entrenched resistance to change on its nuclear disarmament policy, the Kremlin's recent initiative to get Syria to destroy its chemical weapons provides hope that Russia could play a more positive role in reducing the world's global nuclear stockpiles, experts say.
Money Transfer System Used to Arm Militants in Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 16 (IPS) - Arms are being transferred from Somalia into Kenya through hawala, an unregulated and traditional Somali transfer system that works with a network of agents, according to immigration officials and hawala brokers here.
BOOKS: Containing Iran Is the "Least Bad Policy" for U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (IPS) - The day that a much-heralded new round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 Western powers opens on Iran's nuclear programme might seem the wrong day to pick up Unthinkable, Ken Pollack's new exploration of what to do if talks fail.
Tamils Get Some Symbolic Power
- Inter Press Service
DHARMAPURAM, Sri Lanka, Oct 14 (IPS) - True democracy at last or a toothless tiger propped up to appease unfavourable international opinion? As Sri Lanka's Northern Province got its first council after an election last month, many in this South Asian island nation were mulling this conundrum.
Kurds Build Bridges At Last
- Inter Press Service
DERIK, Syria, Oct 13 (IPS) - After fleeing the war three months ago, Gulnaz is headed back for Syria to bury her brother within the 24 hours Islam stipulates. But it is far from easy to take the coffin across the Syrian-Iraqi border.
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