Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 641
‘Humanitarian Diplomacy’ Fights Nukes
- Inter Press Service
OSLO, Mar 07 (IPS) - For the first time, ‘humanitarian diplomacy' is being deployed to drive home the need for banning nukes - though under the self-imposed exclusion of the P5, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, who own a crushing majority of the 19,000 nuclear weapons capable of destroying the world many times over.
North Kivu Refugees Hope to Find Peace in Uganda
- Inter Press Service
NYAKABANDE, Uganda, Mar 07 (IPS) - As dawn rises over Nyakabande, a village in southwestern Uganda, people line up in front of a reception tent, exhausted and carrying only the few belongings they could bring across the border.
Afghanistan a Minefield for the Innocent
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Mar 07 (IPS) - Efforts to clear Afghanistan of landmines have been painfully slow. At least 45 people on average lose their limbs every month to deadly anti-personnel mines, according to the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan, formerly a project of the UN Mine Action Service, and now a national entity.
UNRWA Head Warns of Palestinian Crisis in Syria
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 07 (IPS) - A top United Nations official is warning that the plight of Palestinian refugees is being neglected amidst the ongoing crisis in Syria.
Malian Refugees Look to Rebuild their Lives
- Inter Press Service
MANGAIZE, Niger, Mar 05 (IPS) - Malian refugees in Mangaïze, northwest Niger, are keen to return home to start work and be able to support themselves once more.
Taliban Can’t Beat This Act
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Mar 05 (IPS) - The applause has continued long after the curtain came down on the last performance of Khushal Khan Khattak in the northern Pakistan city of Peshawar last month. The enthusiastic reception should have the Taliban worried.
In Arms in a Forgotten War
- Inter Press Service
STEPANAKERT (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Caucasus), Mar 04 (IPS) - A Soviet-era 4x4 snores down the muddy road to the frontline. It's another foggy day in the flatlands east of the borders of the tiny and once autonomous region Nagorno-Karabakh, sandwiched between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Q&A: ‘Alliance of Civilisations, a Need and a Challenge’
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Mar 01 (IPS) - The fifth global forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC), founded to promote intercultural understanding and dialogue to bring civilisations closer, came to a close Thursday after two days of talks, at which world leaders restated their commitment to the Alliance's ideals and pledged to build on the foundations it had laid to expand its work.
To Walk Down The Street
- Inter Press Service
HEBRON, Occupied West Bank, Mar 01 (IPS) - Molotov cocktails, clouds of teargas, live gunfire, ambulance sirens wailing as they ferried the wounded, and round after round of rubber-coated metal bullets exploding in the street…these were familiar scenes in Palestinian protest.
Aid Hurting Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Feb 28 (IPS) - Local food for local people. That's the idea behind Sharaka (‘partnership', in Arabic), an entirely volunteer-run, Palestinian organisation that aims to bring locally grown products directly to Palestinian dinner tables.
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