Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 588
Past Crimes Haunt Afghan Progress
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Mar 16 (IPS) - As Afghanistan heads for presidential elections Apr. 5, people are asking if the country's massive legacy of human rights violations will be swept under the carpet yet again by the new government.
Ukraine Gropes for Unity
- Inter Press Service
KIEV, Mar 15 (IPS) - Amidst rising tensions within Ukraine, between its government and Russia, and even more between Russia and the West, many are now beginning to fear the beginning of a new Cold War. Talk of sanctions is finding new supporters, and there are proposals to freeze plans for a G8 summit scheduled in Russia later this year.
U.S.-Russia Bickering May Trigger Nuclear Fallout
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 14 (IPS) - The U.S.-Russian confrontation over Ukraine, which is threatening to undermine current bilateral talks on North Korea, Iran, Syria and Palestine, is also in danger of triggering a nuclear fallout.
Russian Repression Sweeps Crimea
- Inter Press Service
KIEV, Mar 14 (IPS) - Crimea is facing a violent wave of human rights abuses, activists warn, with kidnappings of journalists and rights campaigners, harassment of non-Russian minorities and reports of growing persecution of anyone thought to be sympathising with the pro-European Kiev government.
Radicalised Right Grasps for Reins of Power in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Mar 13 (IPS) - The few tenths of a percentage between presidential candidates in the elections of Sunday Mar. 9 have been confirmed in the final vote tally, keeping the right in El Salvador in the opposition – and increasingly antagonistic toward the second consecutive government of the leftwing FMLN.
Split over Ukraine Could Undermine Peace in Syria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 (IPS) - As the protracted Syrian conflict enters its fourth year, there seems to be little or no hope of a resolution to the devastating crisis.
OP-ED: Participation Is Key to Women’s Equality and Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 (IPS) - The largest annual gathering with special focus on issues which impact on women and thereby humanity as a whole is now taking place in New York.
One-Third of Colombia’s Newly-Elected Senators Have Paramilitary Ties
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTÃ, Mar 13 (IPS) - In July 2004, when paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso was demobilising, he admitted to the Colombian parliament that the illegal extreme rightwing forces controlled 35 percent of the seats. Ten years later the situation is very similar: one-third of the new senate, where congressional power mainly resides, is allegedly linked to the paramilitaries.
Swiss Step Up Arms Exports, Peacefully
- Inter Press Service
BERN, Switzerland, Mar 13 (IPS) - Switzerland has eased its restrictions on arms exports - in order to save a few thousand workplaces. Critics fear that Switzerland's credibility as an international peace broker will now suffer.
Koreans Embrace Some Old Ways
- Inter Press Service
SEOUL, Mar 12 (IPS) - Old family bonds still seem to run deep in the South Korea of today. For evidence, one need only look at the yearning of the elderly to meet their long separated kin in North Korea during last month's historic family reunions.
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