Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 701
COLOMBIA: Worse than Fiction
- Inter Press Service
A teenage love story is the fictional plot device in a new Colombian film, Silence in Paradise, about the all-too-real phenomenon of the 'false positives' — the euphemism used to describe army killings of young civilians passed off as guerrilla casualties.
Sweden Runs Into South Sudanese Oilgate
- Inter Press Service
Civil society leaders in South Sudan are closely watching a legal battle unfolding in Sweden, as prosecutors investigate an oil company accused of involvement in massive human rights abuses here.
Washington Frets Over Pakistan Response to Soldiers' Deaths
- Inter Press Service
As the Pentagon scrambled Monday to satisfy Pakistani demands for a full accounting of Saturday's lethal air attack on two border posts, official Washington expressed hope that Islamabad's retaliation will be limited in both time and scope.
DR Congo Polls Disrupted by Violence
- Inter Press Service
Five people have been killed in two separate clashes on election day in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country's interior minister has said.
SRI LANKA: Road Signs Indicate Peace
- Inter Press Service
The rough road is almost indistinguishable from the mud huts and dilapidated surroundings of this village - still pockmarked by the artillery duels of Sri Lanka’s fierce civil war that ended more than two years ago.
MEXICO: Activists Want President and Drug Lords Tried for War Crimes
- Inter Press Service
Activists are hoping that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will take up a case against Mexican President Felipe Calderón, government officials and drug traffickers and indict those responsible for the violence wracking the country. But this is likely to be a complex and lengthy process.
U.S. Leads Challenge to Ban on Cluster Munitions
- Inter Press Service
Deliberations are underway for a United States-backed proposal to allow the continued use, production, trade and stockpiling of cluster munitions at the Fourth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva.
Q&A: NATO Intervention in Libya Was 'Recolonisation'
- Inter Press Service
Brazilian journalist and writer Mário Augusto Jakobskind was thwarted in his attempt to visit Libya during the civil war there, but in spite of this he produced a lucid analysis of the situation in the North African country and of the forces that have taken power after the fall of the Muammar Gaddafi regime.
Crowds Vandalise Arab Embassies in Syria
- Inter Press Service
Crowds supporting President Bashar al-Assad have vandalised at least two Arab embassies in the Syrian capital Damascus as Arab League foreign ministers gathered in Rabat to discuss formalising their suspension of Syria from the league.
COLOMBIA: Perils and Lessons of U.S. Aid
- Inter Press Service
A new report has highlighted a connection - and not always a positive one - between U.S. foreign aid to Colombia and Mexico and violence and crime rates in those countries, pointing out that U.S. policy toward Mexico deserves careful application of lessons learned from the aid the U.S. has supplied Colombia since 2000.
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