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News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 606
OP-ED: Women’s Empowerment Builds International Peace and Security
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (IPS) - When war erupts, women are often the first to experience the harsh brutality and the last to be called to the peace table. A resolution adopted Friday by the U.N. Security Council moves us one step closer to the full participation of women as leaders for peace and security.
Fractured Opposition Could Derail Syria Talks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (IPS) - Despite U.S. and Western pressure on the opposition to take part in U.N.-sponsored talks aimed at halting the two-and-a-half-year-old Syrian civil war, most experts here believe the rebels are unlikely to show up any time soon. And even if they do, the results will be unlikely to change much of anything on the ground.
U.S. Reforms "Open Floodgates" on Arms Exports
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (IPS) - On Tuesday, the largest deregulation in the history of U.S. arms exports took place as part of the Barack Obama administration's export reform initiative.
OP-ED: Collapsism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (IPS) - U.S policymakers indulge in a variety of child's play called collapsism. They close their eyes when they want a particularly despised adversary to go away. And poof! Kim Jong Eun's North Korea eventually disappears. Raul Castro's Cuba eventually vanishes.
Afghan Families Want Accountability, Not Apologies
- Inter Press Service
SARACHA, Afghanistan, Oct 17 (IPS) - The dusty cemetery in Saracha village hosts three new graves: small hills of soil shielding the bodies of Sahebullah, Wasihullah and Amanullah, three of the five boys and young men killed by an ISAF-NATO airstrike on late Friday, Oct. 4.
When the Missing Don't Return
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO/KATHMANDU, Oct 17 (IPS) - Some call it ‘frozen loss,' a point in time that families and relatives find almost impossible to extricate themselves out of, even years after their loved ones have disappeared.
Activists Struggle to Recover Human Rights Archives
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Oct 16 (IPS) - Some 50,000 files on crimes against humanity are languishing in an undisclosed location in El Salvador, prey to damp and the ravages of time, while activists and lawyers frantically try to regain control over them.
Grief Veils Eid for Syrian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
SIDON, Lebanon, Oct 16 (IPS) - This week the Islamic world marks one of its holiest holidays, Eid al-Adha - honouring Ibrahim's commitment to sacrifice his first-born son to Allah. The festival involves large family gatherings, bountiful lunches and generous gift giving.
Russia May Do Better Than its Nuclear Rhetoric
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Oct 16 (IPS) - Despite a seemingly entrenched resistance to change on its nuclear disarmament policy, the Kremlin's recent initiative to get Syria to destroy its chemical weapons provides hope that Russia could play a more positive role in reducing the world's global nuclear stockpiles, experts say.
Money Transfer System Used to Arm Militants in Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 16 (IPS) - Arms are being transferred from Somalia into Kenya through hawala, an unregulated and traditional Somali transfer system that works with a network of agents, according to immigration officials and hawala brokers here.
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