Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 599
Syrious Paralysis on Pennsylvania Avenue
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 20 (IPS) - Three months after averting a military strike against Syria with a last-minute deal to deprive it of its chemical weapons arsenal, U.S. policy toward the world's most violent conflict appears increasingly at sea.
Cameroonians Flee Atrocities in Central African Republic
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDÉ, Dic 19 (IPS) - "We couldn't stand the violence anymore," said 27-year-old Baba Hamadou shortly after alighting from a chartered flight at the Douala International Airport earlier this week.
Q&A: “Libyan Women Were Handed Over as Spoils of War”
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Dic 19 (IPS) - Unless immediate changes are enforced, Libya is heading towards an "Afghan" model regarding women´s rights, Aicha Almagrabi, a Libyan writer and senior women rights activist, told IPS from her residence in Tripoli.
U.N. Advice to Aid Worker: Write Last Will Before Leaving Home
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 18 (IPS) - When Anoja Wijeyesekera, an aid worker with the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, received her new assignment in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan back in 1997, her appointment letter arrived with a "survival manual" and chilling instructions: write your last will before leaving home.
When NATO Leaves Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
JALALABAD,Afghanistan, Dic 18 (IPS) - Afghanistan's 30 million people are deeply divided over whether President Hamid Karzai should sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with Washington that will allow U.S. military operations to continue in the conflict-ravaged country after NATO forces leave in 2014.
Guantanamo Transfers Hint at Momentum Towards Closure
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 16 (IPS) - The U.S. government announced Monday it has repatriated two Saudi detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison, less than two weeks after two Algerian detainees were likewise sent back to their home country.
Syria, CAR top U.N.'s Challenges for 2014
- Inter Press Service
, Dic 16 (IPS) - As the ongoing crises in some of the world's hot spots - including Syria, the Central African Republic, Mali, Libya, Palestine and Darfur, Sudan - continue unabated, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday singled out some of the biggest challenges facing the international community in 2014.
Doctor Abductions Leave Patients Helpless
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dic 16 (IPS) - Doctors in the Pakistani frontier provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan are running scared after nearly 45 consultants were kidnapped for ransom this year. Police suspect that gangs enjoying the Taliban's patronage are behind the abductions that are just a symptom of the many challenges the country faces as it battles terrorism, ethnic conflicts and sectarian divisions.
Refugees Struggle in Ruined Camp
- Inter Press Service
NAHR EL BARED, Dic 15 (IPS) - As the Syrian war intensifies sectarian clashes in Lebanon's northern coastal city Tripoli, Palestinians in the area worriedly watch the violence from the sidelines.
U.S. Urged to Change Policy on Support to Victims of Sexual Violence
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 12 (IPS) - The U.S. government is being urged to roll back a longstanding policy that has banned foreign aid funding from being used for health care services for victims of sexual violence in conflict situations.
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