News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1029
Opinion: Crisis, Emergency Measures and Failure of the ISDS System: The Case of Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 12 (IPS) - The investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system has come under increasing criticism in recent years.
Settlement Expansion Largely Responsible for Violence in Occupied West Bank
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (IPS) - Just weeks after an 18-month-old baby was killed in an arson attack in the Palestinian village of Duma, located south of Nablus city in the Occupied West Bank, a United Nations special committee has blasted Israel's policy of settlement expansion, saying it is the root cause of violence towards Palestinians.
Opinion: Time for the World to Protect and Value its Young Human Rights Defenders
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 11 (IPS) - There's a deep irony that as people around the world mark International Youth Day on Aug. 12, hardly any attention will be paid to the shrinking space for young human rights defenders who increasingly find themselves on the receiving end of government repression.
Opinion: Fair Justice Requires Incontrovertible Evidence in Airline Tragedy
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Aug 10 (IPS) - We refer to the IPS article posted by Mr. Somar Wijayadasa, a former Representative at the United Nations.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Mayors Plead for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN/TOKYO, Aug 10 (IPS) - Seventy years after the brutal and militarily unwarranted atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, a nuclear weapons free world is far from within reach.
Opinion: The Road to Paris and the Path to Renewable Energy
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Aug 07 (IPS) - Renewable energy is now being seen by many people around the world as a cost-effective development solution both for developed and developing nations. Countries have slowly been realising that the use of coal and the huge amount of carbon emissions it generates harms the environment and impacts our daily activities.
Head of State Who Keeps U.N. Guessing in Annual Ritual
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 07 (IPS) - As part of a politically-amusing annual ritual, the guessing game is on at the United Nations: will he, or will he not, address the General Assembly, along with more than 150 heads of state who are due in New York next month?
U.N. Post-2015 Development Agenda Adopted Amidst Closed-Door Deals
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 07 (IPS) - At about a quarter to seven on the evening of Sunday, Aug. 2, the member states of the United Nations adopted the post-2015 development agenda outcome document, titled "Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda."
Opinion: Look at Nuclear Weapons in a New Way
- Inter Press Service
LUND, Sweden, Aug 07 (IPS) - It's absolutely necessary to remember what happened 70 years ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, see the movies from then, listen to the survivors, the hibakusa. But it isn't enough for us to rid the world of these crimes-against-humanity weapons. And that we must.
Amnesty Wants International Criminal Court to Intervene in Libya
- Inter Press Service
THE HAGUE, Aug 07 (IPS) - Calling for an end to "an epidemic of kidnapping blighting" Libya, Amnesty International has faulted the International Criminal Court (ICC) for failing to undertake any investigations into crimes under international law committed by armed groups in the last four years.
Powered by
