Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 593
Pakistan Caught Between Talking and Fighting
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 04 (IPS) - Whether to make war or peace with the Taliban has become a dilemma for the Pakistani government.
U.S. Urged to Conclude Longstanding Review on Landmines
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 03 (IPS) - The U.S. government is being urged to conclude a review of national policy on landmines that has dragged on for more than four years, a lag that some say has indirectly led to the injury or death of more than 16,000 people.
Chileans, Peruvians Unperturbed by State Conflicts
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Feb 03 (IPS) - Juan González and Luis Monsalve come from different backgrounds, but have much in common. González, a 40-year-old Peruvian migrant who has lived for the past eight years in Santiago, and Monsalve, a 63-year-old Chilean, agree that border conflicts never benefit ordinary people.
Poll Shows Diminishing Support for Two-State Solution
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 01 (IPS) - Twenty years of the Oslo peace process between Israelis and Palestinians have made a solution more difficult to attain, rather than easier. That was the conclusion of a poll of Israelis and Palestinians released on Friday.
Greater Transparency Urged for U.N.'s South Sudan Mission
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 01 (IPS) - As South Sudan's fragile ceasefire threatens to unravel, human rights groups are calling on the U.N.'s mission there to make public its human rights reporting, a step they say will help lay the groundwork for reconciliation that never took place following independence in 2011.
Starving for Access in Syria's Yarmouk Camp
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 31 (IPS) - The refugee camp of Yarmouk represents one of the most severe examples of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, with foreign aid agencies unable to enter the opposition-controlled area that been effectively besieged since December 2012.
Mali’s Displaced Still Have Nothing To Return To
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Jan 31 (IPS) - In her traditional orange headdress, Agaichetou Toure sits quietly in a waiting room in Kalaban-Koura, a popular neighbourhood on the outskirts of Mali's capital Bamako.
Asia: The Ghosts of 1914
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (IPS) - On the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, Europe is at peace. There are no major border disputes. The countries form a unified economic bloc instead of a patchwork of jostling alliances.
CAR’s Sectarian Strife Worsens Despite French, AU Troops
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 30 (IPS) - Reports of horrific revenge killing continued to emerge from the Central African Republic Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the Security Council voted to increase the international troop presence there and levy sanctions against those it suspects of war crimes.
Nowhere to Come In From the Cold
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 30 (IPS) - As the temperature dips to zero degrees Celsius, a chill has set into the lives of people like 44-year-old Rasool Khan at the Jalozai camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan. Huddled in tiny tents, with just a plastic sheet over their heads and no heat, they pass sleepless nights in the bitter cold.
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