Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 690
New Alternative in Senegal After Wade Defeat
- Inter Press Service
Analysts say that Senegal’s outgoing President Abdoulaye Wade was made to pay for his failure to respond to popular demands, particularly arising from the high cost of basic commodities, a lengthy strike by teachers, and high youth unemployment, by loosing his bid for a third term of office.
The Forgotten Emergency in Sudan’s Blue Nile State
- Inter Press Service
Hamid Yussef Bashir said he walked for 17 days with his wife and five children to get to a refugee camp in South Sudan. Here in Jamam, they joined about 37,000 other people who fled from the war across the border in Sudan’s Blue Nile state.
Salvadoran Civil War Survivors Demand Restorative Justice
- Inter Press Service
A choked-up Mercedes Alfaro told the fourth session of the International Restorative Justice Tribunal in El Salvador how she lost seven members of her family in a 1982 massacre.
Myanmar 'Reforms' Elude Kachin Refugees
- Inter Press Service
For thousands of ethnic Kachins who fled fighting between government troops and rebels and survived a bitter winter in the refugee camps that dot northern Myanmar (or Burma), another test of survival looms — gale force winds.
Asia is Up in Arms
- Inter Press Service
The geopolitical centre of gravity, as measured in arms spending and transfers, has shifted to Asia.
DRC Elections — U.N. Condemns Rights Violations
- Inter Press Service
A report by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office has slammed the government and security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, condemning electoral violence linked to the Nov. 30 elections which led to at least 33 deaths in the capital, Kinshasa.
Sri Lanka Unfazed by U.N. Rights Resolution
- Inter Press Service
As the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted in, Thursday, a resolution asking Colombo to act on recommendations made by its own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), Buddhist prayers reverberated through the Sri Lankan capital.
Karzai's Team Clashes over Relations With U.S.
- Inter Press Service
The increasing influence of a conservative circle within President Hamid Karzai's palace has impeded progress in signing a crucial strategic agreement with the U.S. to chart the relationship beyond 2014, officials and analysts have said.
Poll Shows Little U.S. Support for Syria Intervention
- Inter Press Service
Despite strenuous efforts by prominent neo-conservatives and other hawks, a war-weary U.S. public is clearly very leery of any armed intervention in what many experts believe is rapidly becoming a civil war in Syria, according to recent polls.
Libyan Air Strike Victims Still Waiting for Redress
- Inter Press Service
Amnesty International (AI) released a scathing report late last week calling for an investigation into civilian deaths from air strikes during the 2011 NATO-led military intervention in Libya, which began one year ago Monday.
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