Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 649
The Mindlessness of War in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Dic 30 (IPS) - One night in 1979, bombs dropped from the sky, killing 16 members of Ismail's family. "The war took some people to Europe and America, but it destroyed my family," Ismail, who is universally addressed as "uncle", says.
Renovating an Embattled City
- Inter Press Service
HEBRON, Occupied West Bank, Dic 29 (IPS) - Every day, Anas Maraka sees his family's home, but can't go inside. "It's hardest for my grandfather," said Maraka, referring to the house overlooking Shuhada Street, once the central marketplace in Hebron's old city.
Carrots and Cabbages - Reviving Family Farming in Angola
- Inter Press Service
CAPANDA, Angola, Dic 28 (IPS) - "We never used to eat carrots, but now we like them," said Rebeca Soba, admiring her vegetable garden, an island of diversity in the midst of a vast sugarcane plantation.
Vegetable gardening has been introduced at the Capanda Agroindustrial Pole (PAC) as a source of income for local small farmers.
U.N.'s Last Stand on Arms Trade Treaty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 27 (IPS) - Amidst a politically divisive debate on gun control in the United States following a rash of mass shootings, the United Nations will meet in March to finalise an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) after nearly two decades of negotiations.
The ‘Flattening’ of Gaza
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Dic 25 (IPS) - On Nov. 17, four days into Israel's eight-day assault on the Gaza Strip, deputy Israeli Prime Minister Eli Yishai publicly called for the Israeli army to "blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water".
Thousands Orphaned by Poverty in Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Dic 23 (IPS) - Seventeen-year-old Afzal is an unusual orphan. Though his father died many years ago, his mother is still alive and living with Afzal's grandparents and younger siblings in a house not far from the orphanage where the boy has spent most of his teenage years.
Funding Shortage Thwarts Reconstruction Efforts
- Inter Press Service
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka, Dic 23 (IPS) - The landscape in northern Sri Lanka's former war zone can change abruptly from the ordinary to the surreal.
The Politics of Polio in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR/KARACHI, Dic 21 (IPS) - The murder of nine health workers vaccinating children against polio in Pakistan's northwest cities of Peshawar and Charsadda in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, and its southern port city Karachi, have elicited shock and outrage.
Colombian Landowners, Peasants Listen to Each Other
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Dic 20 (IPS) - Colombia's large-scale agricultural producers and peasant farmers managed to listen to each other for the first time about the core cause of the decades-long armed conflict: the concentration of rural land ownership and the social and economic development of the countryside.
Marching Toward a Third Uprising?
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Dic 20 (IPS) - While the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip hasn't been so quiet for the past two decades, it's now the turn of the occupied West Bank to show signs of eruption.
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