Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 699
EL SALVADOR: Twenty Years of Peace Fail to Bring Prosperity
- Inter Press Service
Two decades after the signing of the Peace Accords, together with the social commitments they contained, El Salvador's levels of poverty and violence are so high that academic and social leaders are proposing new accords to overcome the crisis.
U.S.: A Decade in the Purgatory Called Guantanamo
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of protesters, dozens outfitted in orange jumpsuits and black hoods, took to the streets outside the White House on Wednesday to demonstrate against torture and indefinite detention on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Salvadoran Poet Roque Dalton's Murder - Case Closed
- Inter Press Service
It was the first time that a Salvadoran judge was holding a hearing to decide whether the case of Roque Dalton, a poet murdered 36 years ago, should go to trial. But the hopes of his family were dashed.
Less Counter-Insurgency, More Asia in New U.S. Strategy
- Inter Press Service
Capping a major eight-month review, President Barack Obama unveiled a new defence strategy here Thursday that places more emphasis on U.S. military capabilities in Asia and the Pacific and much less on counter-insurgency and nation-building operations in poorer and conflict-plagued countries.
U.S.: Anti-Neo-Con Candidate Getting Serious Look
- Inter Press Service
Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who 24 years ago performed dismally as the standard-bearer of the Libertarian Party, has begun making waves in the 2012 presidential campaign, to the extreme discomfort of neo-conservatives and aggressive nationalists who dominate the foreign policy rosters of most of his Republican rivals.
IRAN: Obama Seeks to Distance U.S. from Israeli Attack
- Inter Press Service
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are engaged in intense maneuvering over Netanyahu's aim of entangling the United States in an Israeli war against Iran.
SOMALIA: Rebuilding Among the Rubble
- Inter Press Service
With vehicles and donkey carts packed with their belongings, Somalis are returning, four years after they fled, to their partially standing, bullet-scarred and mortar-shelled neighbourhoods in former Al-Shabaab controlled areas of Mogadishu.
Q&A: War Crimes Court Should Strengthen Victims' Participation
- Inter Press Service
Most of the cases brought before the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) include gender-based crimes, but advocates say the court is still falling short in ensuring that women play an active role in decision-making and outreach at the highest levels.
GUATEMALA: Military Allies Take Ex-Guerrillas, Journalists to Court
- Inter Press Service
Relatives of former military personnel and businessmen are bringing lawsuits against ex guerrillas and journalists in Guatemala in connection with the 1960-1996 civil war — a legal offensive that human rights defenders say is politically motivated.
SOMALIA: Taking Schools Back From Militants
- Inter Press Service
Schools are beginning to re-open slowly in areas of capital Mogadishu that were until recently controlled by the militant Islamic group al-Shabaab. But an estimated 80 percent of students have not yet returned.
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