News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 328
Communication Blackout, Rights Abuses in Nigeria’s Emergency States
- Inter Press Service
LAGOS, Nigeria, Jun 07 (IPS) - Residents in the three Nigerian states where a state of emergency has been declared are living in fear as food prices soar and government soldiers conduct door to door campaigns to root out terrorists.
Rice Replaces Donilon as Obama’s Top Foreign Policy Adviser
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - In a reshuffle of top foreign policy posts in his second term, U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday announced that his controversial and blunt-spoken U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, will replace Tom Donilon as his national security adviser.
In Besieged Refugee Camp, Syrian Medics Struggle to Provide
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Jun 05 (IPS) - It was nine in the morning when the shell landed in front of nine-year-old Hella al-Abtah's house in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Hella survived the initial blast but was critically wounded in the head, and her father rushed her to the Palestine Hospital, blood pouring from the laceration.
46 Years on, Arab-Israeli War Still Leaving Its Mark
- Inter Press Service
OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, Jun 05 (IPS) - Majda el-Batsch was eight years old in June 1967 when she heard about the war that year. "I didn't know what war meant," she recalled. More than four decades later, the Palestinian reporter is still grappling with the meaning of what is known as the Six-Day War.
Despite Peace Talks, Forced Displacement Still Climbing in Colombia
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Jun 04 (IPS) - Drugs and arms traffickers are muscling in on Colombia's Pacific coastal region, forcibly displacing local people, according to a new report by the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES).
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 04 (IPS) - The United Nations witnessed a historic moment Monday with the signing of the Arms Trade Treaty, first adopted in April by the General Assembly, and the first time the 85-billion-dollar international arms trade has been regulated by a global set of standards.
Q&A: Iran's Medical Shortages: Who's Responsible?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 03 (IPS) - For two years, reports have surfaced describing medical supply shortages in Iran, some with devastating consequences, as debate continues to rage about who's responsible - the Iranian government or the sanctions regime.
U.N. Can Help Devalue Nukes as Geopolitical Currency
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 03 (IPS) - When the 193-member U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) holds is first-ever high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament next September, there is little or no hope that any of the nuclear powers will make a firm commitment to gradually phase out or abandon their lethal arsenals.
U.S., China Seek Common Ground on North Korea
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 03 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama is set to host his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Jun. 7-8 for their first bilateral meeting as heads of state. Figuring on their agenda is how to address a precarious North Korea, which is armed with a small nuclear arsenal and vying for a bigger one.
Healing South Sudan’s Wounds
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Jun 03 (IPS) - Susana Apai Wani has lived as a widow for more than two decades since her husband, James Wani, was arrested in 1992 by a policeman who accused him of collaborating with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, which was a rebel political movement at the time.
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