Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 20
Gaza City suffering escalates as Israeli strikes inflict more heavy casualties
- UN News
While the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza City ramps up, conditions in the south of the war-torn enclave are so cramped that displaced and starving Gazans are sleeping on rubble-strewn open ground, UN aid teams said on Thursday.
Prospects for the Upcoming High-Level Conference on Rohingya
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, September 24 (IPS) - Last month marked eight years since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were forcibly displaced from Myanmar’s Rakhine State to Bangladesh by the Myanmar military.
Syria: Return of millions brings hope but challenges remain
- UN News
In just nine months, one million Syrians have returned home following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime last December, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported on Wednesday.
AI must not decide humanity’s fate, UN chief warns Security Council
- UN News
Artificial intelligence holds vast potential but poses grave risks if left unregulated, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday.
‘Iran has never sought and will never seek to build a nuclear bomb,’ President tells General Assembly
- UN News
Iran’s President affirmed that his country has no intentions to build a nuclear bomb in his address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.
‘The State Cannot Pardon Itself for Violating Human Rights’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses Peru’s new amnesty law with Nadia Ramos Serrano, founder and researcher at the Leadership Centre for Women of the Americas, a civil society organisation working on democratic development and the role of women in politics.
Mamdani’s Stand on Genocide is More Important than the Dynamics of Arresting Netanyahu
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, September 23 (IPS) - No leader responsible for mass atrocities enjoys greater impunity on the international stage than Benjamin Netanyahu. This is due to the strange stranglehold of the pro-Israel lobby on the two major political parties in the United States.
Guterres warns against loss of ‘fragile’ diplomatic momentum over Ukraine
- UN News
Speaking at a high-level briefing on Ukraine on Tuesday, the UN Secretary General António Guterres told the Security Council that the international community cannot afford to lose “fragile” diplomatic momentum over ending the war with Russia.
Haiti’s security crisis ‘is like the Sword of Damocles above us’: Foreign Minister
- UN News
Foreign Ministers from across the Americas met on the margins of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to rally for greater support for Haiti.
Failure to end Gaza war undermining world’s credibility, UN chief warns
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Tuesday that the crisis in Gaza has become “one of the darkest chapters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” with worsening suffering and deepening regional instability.
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