Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 603
Dwindling Aid Slows Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Nov 07 (IPS) - When the first trains in almost two and a half decades started running through this war-ravaged town in Sri Lanka in mid-September, Sinngamuththu Jesudasan could not resist the temptation to go and have a look - repeatedly.
Cracks Widen in U.S.-Saudi Alliance
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 07 (IPS) - While Monday's meeting between Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi King Abdullah may have helped calm the waters, the latest anxieties and anger expressed by Riyadh toward the United States has reignited debate here about the value of the two countries' long-standing alliance.
OP-ED: Act Now, Act Big to End Sexual Violence in DRC
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 06 (IPS) - Imagine an orphanage where over 300 children born out of rape have been abandoned because of the shame and stigma associated with sexual violence. Imagine a town where, in the last year, 11 infants between the ages of 6 months and 1 year, and 59 small children from 1 to 3 years old, have been raped.
‘I Sold My Sister for 300 Dollars’
- Inter Press Service
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan, Nov 06 (IPS) - Amani has just turned 22. Two months ago she fled from the civil war in Syria and left her house in capital Damascus. After a dangerous nightlong trip she arrived at Zaatari, the refugee camp just over the border in Jordan, where her parents and two sisters had already lived for over a year.
U.N. Urged to Practice What It Preaches on Gender
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 05 (IPS) - Amidst a rise in sexual violence in the world's war zones, the United Nations has begun appointing women to head some of the key political and peacekeeping missions in conflict areas - and also created Gender Advisers as a second line of defence.
BOOKS: The Neverending War
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 04 (IPS) - In his final letter to his family, 30-year-old Iraq war veteran Daniel Somers wrote of having never returned from war. "In truth, I was nothing more than a prop," reads the suicide note dated Jun. 10, 2013, six years after his final deployment. "In truth, I have already been absent for a long, long time."
For Kurdish Women, It’s a Double Revolution
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, Nov 04 (IPS) - "I got married when I was 14 and I already had four children at 20," recalls Nafia Brahim. In her fifties now, she is working hard so that no other woman loses control of her life.
A ‘Green Intifadah’ Takes Root
- Inter Press Service
BATTIR, Occupied West Bank, Nov 03 (IPS) - "O green Battir, mother of the air," Mariam Ma'mmar sings in praise of her village. As the hot season draws to a close, the land – her people's strength – dries up. Not here in her Battir, where a peaceful form of resistance against the Israeli occupation is taking root.
Drone Attack Kills More Than Taliban Chief
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Nov 02 (IPS) - The drone attack that killed Tehreek Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mahsud this week seems also to have killed hopes that drone attacks will end.
Iraq Retakes Washington Centre-Stage, Briefly
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 02 (IPS) - Ten and a half years after invading U.S. troops ousted President Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime, Iraq re-emerged here this week, if only briefly, as a major foreign policy agenda item.
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