Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 622
Children of Conflict
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - Malala Yousafzai and Muhammad Qasim have a lot in common.
War or Peace, Sri Lankan Women Struggle to Survive
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 10 (IPS) - It has been four years since the guns fell silent in Sri Lanka's northern Vanni region, after almost three decades of ethnic violence. Unfortunately peace does not mean the end of hardship for the most vulnerable people here: the women.
Afghanistan Faces Slim Chance of Post-Occupation Peace Deal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 09 (IPS) - The prospects for a peace settlement and power-sharing in Afghanistan following the scheduled U.S.-led troop withdrawal in 2014 are grim, according to a report presented here Monday.
Egyptian Army's Firepower Overwhelmingly U.S.-Supplied
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 09 (IPS) - When the dust settles from the ongoing deadly confrontations between the Egyptian armed forces and thousands of Islamist protesters in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria, the eventual winner will be the United States - specifically U.S.-made weapons systems in the hands of the country's 440,000-strong military.
OP-ED: Islam Is Not the Solution to What Ails the Middle East
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 08 (IPS) - During the decades when Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was a barely tolerated opposition party, it campaigned against the reigning secular autocrats under the banner "Islam is the solution."
Israel May Even Miss Morsi
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Jul 08 (IPS) - For Israel, what must be exercised in the volatile struggle for power and democracy in Egypt are, above everything else, three follow-on principles: stability within its institutions, particularly the armed forces; security in the Sinai Peninsula and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, which both border Israel; and peace with Israel itself.
Civil Society Fears Taliban Return
- Inter Press Service
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Jul 08 (IPS) - While United States President Barack Obama and Afghan leader Hamid Karzai scramble to solidify a peace process ahead of the 2014 withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan, fears that the Taliban will use the drawdown to seize power hang like a dark cloud over civil society.
Doubts Linger Over U.N. Troops' Preparedness to Enter Mali
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 05 (IPS) - As the new 12,600-strong United Nations peacekeeping forces don their blue helmets and prepare to take over from African-led forces in Mali, a nation consumed by corruption and extremism, concerns remain whether U.N. troops will successfully execute this transfer of authority.
Activists Preserve a Part of Syria's Revolution
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 04 (IPS) - For the small town of Kafranbel in Syria, the old saying "a pen is mightier than a sword" still rings true. Every week in Kafranbel, protesters draw posters, write banners and demonstrate against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
OP-ED: Moving Forward to End Violence Against Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 03 (IPS) - Last year, as rebels captured the main towns in Northern Mali, UN Women registered a sudden and dramatic increase of rapes in the first week of the takeover of Gao and Kidal, in places where most women never report this violence to anyone, not even health practitioners.
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