News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 314
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.??
U.S. Public-Elite Disconnect Emerges Over Syria
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 14 (IPS) - While much of the foreign policy elite here sees the tide of public opposition to U.S. air strikes against Syria that swept over Washington during the past two weeks as evidence of a growing isolationism, veteran pollsters and other analysts say other factors were more relevant.
Low Expectations for High-Level Nuke Meet
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (IPS) - The upcoming event at the United Nations is being billed as something politically unique.
DRC Peacebuilding Ignores Local Solutions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (IPS) - Despite existing local expertise and strategies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to build peace-supporting structures at the community level, official debates and media coverage continue to focus predominantly on military interventions.
Hopeful but Homesick in Peshawar Schools
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 13 (IPS) - "I miss my mother and cry every night," eight-year-old Afaq Ali tells IPS. He is a Class 5 student at the University Public School in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the administrative centre for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to its west.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/Somali President Rides Through a Bumpy Year
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI, Sep 12 (IPS) - After his first year as president of the world's most dangerous and failed state, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is still grappling with limited financial resources, corruption, a lack of service delivery, and the ongoing assassinations of government officials, including attempts on his own life.
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