Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1219
Bought, Sold and Abused in Yemen
- Inter Press Service
ADEN, Yemen, Jan 02 (IPS) - Twenty-one-year-old Aisha clings to her two children as she recounts her tale of horror. Growing up in the Somali capital Mogadishu, she fell in love and bore a child out of wedlock four years ago. When her family threatened her life for destroying her ‘honour', Aisha escaped.
The Mindlessness of War in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Dic 30 (IPS) - One night in 1979, bombs dropped from the sky, killing 16 members of Ismail's family. "The war took some people to Europe and America, but it destroyed my family," Ismail, who is universally addressed as "uncle", says.
Renovating an Embattled City
- Inter Press Service
HEBRON, Occupied West Bank, Dic 29 (IPS) - Every day, Anas Maraka sees his family's home, but can't go inside. "It's hardest for my grandfather," said Maraka, referring to the house overlooking Shuhada Street, once the central marketplace in Hebron's old city.
Fear of Rape Stalks Indian Women
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Dic 28 (IPS) - While a 23-year-old woman battles for life in a New Delhi hospital after she was gang raped and brutalised on a moving bus in India's prosperous national capital earlier this month, women across the nation say they live in constant fear of sexual assault.
U.N.'s Last Stand on Arms Trade Treaty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 27 (IPS) - Amidst a politically divisive debate on gun control in the United States following a rash of mass shootings, the United Nations will meet in March to finalise an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) after nearly two decades of negotiations.
The ‘Flattening’ of Gaza
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Dic 25 (IPS) - On Nov. 17, four days into Israel's eight-day assault on the Gaza Strip, deputy Israeli Prime Minister Eli Yishai publicly called for the Israeli army to "blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water".
Bedouin Seek Democracy in Israel
- Inter Press Service
BEERSHEBA, Israel, Dic 22 (IPS) - As campaign posters pop up around Israel ahead of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections, Bedouin citizens of the state are still reeling after being denied the chance to elect their own local council representatives.
Sen. John Kerry Chosen for U.S. Secretary of State
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 22 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Massachusetts Senator John Kerry on Friday to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, calling him "the perfect choice to guide American diplomacy in the years ahead".
Q&A: "It's Time to Wage War on Homophobia"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 21 (IPS) - For more than two decades, the internationally beloved singer and human rights activist Yvonne Chaka Chaka has been at the forefront of the South African pop music scene.
The Politics of Polio in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR/KARACHI, Dic 21 (IPS) - The murder of nine health workers vaccinating children against polio in Pakistan's northwest cities of Peshawar and Charsadda in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, and its southern port city Karachi, have elicited shock and outrage.
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