Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 546
Foreign Fighter Recruits: Why the U.S. Fares Better than Others
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 17 (IPS) - More than 25,000 fighters seeking to wage "jihad" or an Islamic holy war have left home to join terrorist networks abroad, according to a United Nations report released earlier this month.
U.N. Struggles to Cope with New Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 17 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is providing humanitarian aid to over 50 million refugees worldwide, is struggling to cope with a new crisis in hand: death and destruction in Yemen.
Q&A: Iranian Balochistan is a “Hunting Ground” – Nasser Boladai
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Apr 17 (IPS) - Nasser Boladai is the spokesperson of the Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran (CNFI), an umbrella movement aimed at expanding support for a secular, democratic and federal Iran. IPS spoke with him in Geneva, where he was invited to speak at a recent conference on Human Rights and Global Perspectives in his native Balochistan region.
Sexual Violence in Conflict "The Contemporary Moral Issue" Says United Nations
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 17 (IPS) - Impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence in war must end, said Zainab Hawa Bangura, the Special representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on sexual violence in conflict, who presented to the U.N. Security Council the Secretary-General's 2015 report on the issue on April 15.
U.N. Warns of Growing Divide Between Nuclear Haves and Have-Nots
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 13 (IPS) - As she prepared to leave office after more than three years, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane painted a dismal picture of a conflicted world: it is "not the best of times for disarmament."
Opinion: Moment of Truth for the Nobel Peace Prize
- Inter Press Service
OSLO, Apr 10 (IPS) - The Nobel Peace Prize is about to bow out to critics. As of Jan. 1, the Oslo-based Norwegian Nobel Committee that selects the winners has a new secretary, Olav Njølstad, who announced that "changes loom" in a recent interview.
U.N. Secretary-General Calls for International Unity on Yemen and Syria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 09 (IPS) - "Political negotiations, not military intervention are the solution" said United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on the rapidly deteriorating conflict situation in Yemen and recent developments in Syria at the Yarmouk refugee camp.
State of Palestine in Overtime
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 09 (IPS) - The large majority of countries, and most of the people in the world, already recognise Palestine as an independent state.
At Least 18 Already Killed in Yarmouk Attacks: Amnesty International
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 09 (IPS) - At least 18 civilians have already been killed in the attack on the Syrian refugee camp of Yarmouk, according to Amnesty International.
Israeli Forces Target Journalists in West Bank
- Inter Press Service
KAFR QADDOUM, West Bank, Apr 07 (IPS) - It is becoming increasingly risky to cover clashes and protests between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters in the West Bank as the number of journalists injured, in what appears to be deliberate targeting by Israeli security forces, continues to rise.
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