News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 344
Malian Refugees Look to Rebuild their Lives
- Inter Press Service
MANGAIZE, Niger, Mar 05 (IPS) - Malian refugees in Mangaïze, northwest Niger, are keen to return home to start work and be able to support themselves once more.
Taliban Can’t Beat This Act
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Mar 05 (IPS) - The applause has continued long after the curtain came down on the last performance of Khushal Khan Khattak in the northern Pakistan city of Peshawar last month. The enthusiastic reception should have the Taliban worried.
In Arms in a Forgotten War
- Inter Press Service
STEPANAKERT (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Caucasus), Mar 04 (IPS) - A Soviet-era 4x4 snores down the muddy road to the frontline. It's another foggy day in the flatlands east of the borders of the tiny and once autonomous region Nagorno-Karabakh, sandwiched between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Q&A: ‘Alliance of Civilisations, a Need and a Challenge’
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Mar 01 (IPS) - The fifth global forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC), founded to promote intercultural understanding and dialogue to bring civilisations closer, came to a close Thursday after two days of talks, at which world leaders restated their commitment to the Alliance's ideals and pledged to build on the foundations it had laid to expand its work.
To Walk Down The Street
- Inter Press Service
HEBRON, Occupied West Bank, Mar 01 (IPS) - Molotov cocktails, clouds of teargas, live gunfire, ambulance sirens wailing as they ferried the wounded, and round after round of rubber-coated metal bullets exploding in the street…these were familiar scenes in Palestinian protest.
Aid Hurting Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Feb 28 (IPS) - Local food for local people. That's the idea behind Sharaka (‘partnership', in Arabic), an entirely volunteer-run, Palestinian organisation that aims to bring locally grown products directly to Palestinian dinner tables.
Peace and Dead Sea at a New Low
- Inter Press Service
EIN FESHKA, Occupied West Bank, Feb 26 (IPS) - Two of the three main objectives of the Red Sea-Dead Sea canal project grapple with how to "save the Dead Sea" and "build a symbol of peace in the region." With Israeli-Palestinians relations and the Dead Sea at an all time low, questions arise whether the ‘Red-Dead Canal' (as it is known in environmental jargon) could save not only the hyper-saline desert lake but peace itself.
More Dead Than Red
- Inter Press Service
EIN GEDI, Israel, Feb 25 (IPS) - The World Bank has declared the Red Sea-Dead Sea canal project feasible. Designed to "save the Dead Sea", "desalinate water and/or generate hydroelectricity at affordable prices in Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority", and "build a symbol of peace in the Middle East", the scheme, green groups warn, is fraught with environmental hazards.
The Limits of Media Freedom in Somalia
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Feb 25 (IPS) - Media advocates in Somalia worry that a recent case against a journalists who exposed the story of a gang rape involving members of the national security forces will serve as a deterrent to journalists countrywide.
Malian Refugees Wanting to Return Home Face Difficult Choices
- Inter Press Service
NIAMEY, Feb 23 (IPS) - When northern Malian refugees fled their country for Niger in 2012, they expected they would be able to return home shortly afterwards. But despite the armed intervention by the French army in the West African nation, few of the 50,000 Niger-based refugees are ready to leave for home just yet.
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