Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 576
Gun Lobbyists, Minus Weapons, Gather at World Body
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 02 (IPS) - When the United Nations hosted its biennial review meeting on the illicit trade in small arms last month, the conference room was overflowing both with pro-gun and anti-gun lobbyists.
Here Are the Real Victims of Pakistan’s War on the Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 01 (IPS) - Three days ago, Rameela Bibi was the mother of a month-old baby boy. He died in her arms on Jun. 28, of a chest infection that he contracted when the family fled their home in Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency, where a full-scale military offensive against the Taliban has forced nearly half a million people to flee.
Trouble Brewing in Kurdish-Controlled Kirkuk
- Inter Press Service
KIRKUK, Iraq, Jul 01 (IPS) - The Kurdish flag is flying high in the wind from the rooftop of an old brick house inside Kirkuk's millennia-old citadel, as Rashid – a stern-looking young man sitting behind a machine gun – monitors the surroundings.
Ethnic Cleansing Goes Unpunished in the ‘Land of the Pure’
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Jun 30 (IPS) - It has been two years since he survived an attack on his life, but 24-year-old Quwat Haider, a member of Pakistan's minority Hazara community, still finds it hard to narrate the events that scarred him for life.
OP-ED: U.S. Blames Victims of its own Failed Foreign Policies
- Inter Press Service
MELBOURNE, Jun 30 (IPS) - The events unraveling in the Middle East have proved that the vaunted "Arab Spring" has turned into a searing summer of wildfires exploding unpredictably in diverse Islamic fronts without competent firemen to hose down the unmanageable conflagration.
U.S.: What Is the Greatest Threat of Them All?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 28 (IPS) - This month's stunning campaign by Sunni insurgents led by the radical Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL) against the mainly Shi'a government of Iraqi President Nouri Al-Maliki is stoking a growing debate here about the hierarchy of threats facing the United States in the Middle East and beyond.
OP-ED: Surging Violence Against Women in Iraq
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 27 (IPS) - Shortly after their conquest of Mosul, young men armed with assault rifles went door to door in Iraq's second-largest city, taking "women who are not owned" for jihad al-nikah, or sex jihad.
Bolivia Charts Its Own Path on Coca
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - This week, the U.N. reported that coca cultivation in Bolivia fell nine percent last year, and a massive 26 percent in the past three years.
Tensions between CAR Refugees and Cameroonians Escalate over Depleting Resources
- Inter Press Service
GUIWA, Cameroon, Jun 24 (IPS) - Central African Republic refugees living in Cameroon's East Region are increasingly becoming frustrated about their deteriorating living conditions and their inability to support themselves as conflict between them and and local villagers has escalated over depleting resources.
Military Offensive Deepens Housing Crisis in Northern Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 23 (IPS) - Shaukat Ali, a shopkeeper originally hailing from Miramshah in the Northern Waziristan Agency of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), looks exhausted as he sits outside a makeshift shelter with his family of 10.
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