Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 508
IPS Journalists Who Perished in the Line of Duty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 26 (IPS) - In the politically-risky world of professional journalism, news reporters are fast becoming an endangered species.
Fate of Earth Must Not be Decided by US & Fellow Nuclear States
- Inter Press Service
VICTORIA, BC, Canada, Apr 24 (IPS) - When the United Nations continues its negotiations in June for an international treaty against nuclear weapons, there must be a treaty that should cover every single aspect of the devastating weapons --- and leading eventually to their total elimination from the world's military arsenals.
Women Clearing Bombs in Cambodia
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Apr 24 (IPS) - Mao Neav takes a few quick steps out into the field, followed by her faithful dog Onada, tail wagging, tongue out and panting, ready for what is out there. The field is peppered with cluster bombs.
Building resilient rural livelihoods is key to helping Yemen
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 24 (IPS) - People in Yemen are currently suffering from the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
More than 17 million people around Yemen's rugged landscape are acutely food insecure, and the figure is likely to increase as the ongoing conflict continues to erode the ability to grow, import, distribute and pay for food. More than 7 million people are on the verge of famine, while the rest are marginally meeting the minimum day-to-day nutritional needs thanks to external humanitarian and livelihoods support. Large-scale famine is a real risk that will cast an awful shadow for generations to come.
Middle East, Engulfed by a ‘Perfect Storm’
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 21 (IPS) - A perfect storm has engulfed the Middle East, and continues to threaten international peace and security.
Hardly anyone could sum up the Middle East explosive situation in so few, blunt words as just did Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.
Yemen, World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 19 (IPS) - With 18.8 million people –nearly 3 in 4 inhabitants-- in need of humanitarian aid, including 10.3 million requiring immediate assistance, Yemen is now the largest single-nation humanitarian crisis in the world, the United Nations informs while warning that the two-year war is rapidly pushing the country towards "social, economic and institutional collapse."
Demand for Lower Peacekeeping Dues to Pit US Against UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 18 (IPS) - The Trump administration, buoyed by a powerful anti-internationalist movement among conservative Republicans in the United States Congress, is headed for a new confrontation with the United Nations over who decides how much the US should pay for peacekeeping.
"We Can't Protest So We Pray": Anguish in Amhara During Ethiopia's State of Emergency
- Inter Press Service
BAHIR DAR, Apr 17 (IPS) - As dawn breaks in Bahir Dar, men prepare boats beside Lake Tana to take to its island monasteries the tourists that are starting to return.
A Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Is in the Making
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 14 (IPS) - The nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies chose to ignore the negotiations on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.
Survivors of Sex Abuse Say UN Neglected Them
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 14 (IPS) - Several survivors who were sexually abused by peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic (CAR) continue to be neglected by the UN, an investigative team has found.
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