Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 521
Will Canada Recognise Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Developing Countries Too?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 19 (IPS) - While Canada's long-awaited support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples brought hope and celebration last week, it's not yet clear whether the rights of Indigenous people in developing countries harmed by Canadian mining companies will also be included.
A Latin American Humanitarian Emergency Invisible to the World
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, May 19 (IPS) - "This is a humanitarian crisis," said Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, referring to the generalised violence in Mexico and in Honduras and other countries of Central America, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and is a product of transnational crime, but is invisible to the international community.
Humanitarian Situation in Yemen Seriously Deteriorating
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 18 (IPS) - The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is very seriously deteriorating, said Office of the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs' (OCHA) Operations Director John Ging.
A Refugee Crisis with No End in Sight
- Inter Press Service
GAZA, Palestine, May 18 (IPS) - "We don't want charity, we want a long-term solution."
Analysis: Why the UN Needs a “Peace Industrial Complex”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 17 (IPS) - In a world where annual defence spending is over 1.6 trillion dollars and the UN Peacebuilding Fund receives less than 700 million dollars, it would seem that the military industrial complex is unwaveringly entrenched.
Industrial-Level Aid Logistics in Colombia’s Decades-Long Humanitarian Disaster
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, May 16 (IPS) - "If you're going to talk about Colombia and the peace process, do it somewhere else," was heard at a regional preparatory meeting for the World Humanitarian Summit, according to Ramón Rodríguez, with the Colombian government's Unit for Attention and Integral Reparation for Victims (UARIV).
Justice for Berta Caceres Incomplete Without Land Rights: UN Rapporteur
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - The murder of Honduran Indigenous woman Berta Caceres is only too familiar to Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Why Set Up a Shell Company in Panama?
- Inter Press Service
Daylesford, Australia, May 12 (IPS) - A previously little-known law firm called Mossack Fonseca, based in Panama, has recently been exposed as one of the world's major creators of ‘shell companies', that is, corporate structures that can be used to hide the ownership of assets. This can be done legally but shell companies of this nature are widely used for illegal purposes such as tax evasion and money laundering of proceeds from criminal activity.
FAO’s Peace-Building Efforts Through Food Security
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 12 (IPS) - At the launching today, of the FAO-Nobel Peace Laureate Alliance for food security and peace, FAO's Director-General said that "peace and food security are inextricably linked – we cannot achieve one without the other. By integrating food security and peace-building initiatives, we can work together to ensure that hunger is neither a cause nor a result of conflict."
Why Peacebuilding is Part of the Sustainable Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (IPS) - We tend not to worry when things are going well.
If people can take care of their daily business and send their kids to school without fear of violence, resolve disputes through a functioning justice system when the need arises, express their views both in private discussions and in public processes, feel they can truly contribute to decisions that affect their lives, and know effective institutions are in place to deliver basic services to their families and communities without interruption or the need for bribes, chances are they will be broadly content with the way their society is managed.
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