Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 704
SUDAN: Bombing the Homeless
- Inter Press Service
Hawa Jundi sat on the ground outside a makeshift shelter where she and her family now live. A violent storm was moving in and lightning streaked toward the earth as the wind began blowing hard against the tarpaulin tied to a frame of sticks.
U.S. Urged to Keep Funding U.N Peacekeeping
- Inter Press Service
High-level United Nations officials and advocates of U.S. involvement in U.N. peacekeeping initiatives in Washington this week urged lawmakers to continue and even ramp up support for the operations, which they say benefit U.S. security interests, protect civilians, and prevent failed states.
U.S. Urged to Keep Funding U.N Peacekeeping
- Inter Press Service
High-level United Nations officials and advocates of U.S. involvement in U.N. peacekeeping initiatives in Washington this week urged lawmakers to continue and even ramp up support for the operations, which they say benefit U.S. security interests, protect civilians, and prevent failed states.
Turkish Troops Enter Iraq After PKK Attacks
- Inter Press Service
Turkish forces have launched an incursion into the mountains of northern Iraq following simultaneous attacks by Kurdish separatists in southeastern Turkey that killed at least 26 soldiers.
SOMALIA: Death Threats Fail to Stop Women’s Basketball
- Inter Press Service
When Al-Shabaab militants called the Somali national women’s basketball team captain, Suweys Ali Jama, and told her she had two options: to be killed or to stop playing basketball, she decided that neither was really an option at all.
Qatar Launches New Global Award to Promote Education
- Inter Press Service
The internationally-renowned Nobel Prizes have been awarded annually for superlative achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.
DR CONGO: No End to Mass Rapes: 'It’s a Miserable Life'
- Inter Press Service
Angeline Mwarusena, 61, sits on a small wooden bench in front of her hut, head bent, shoulders slumped. Her voice is barely audible. Four years ago, three soldiers from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) entered her home, hit her and raped her repeatedly. One after the other.
COLOMBIA: When Humanitarian Law Is Just Rhetoric
- Inter Press Service
The constant violations of international humanitarian law in Colombia claimed the life of an 11-year-old indigenous girl a month ago in the mountains of the southwest province of Cauca.
COLOMBIA: 'I Was Ready for Anything — Except for Mourning a Daughter'
- Inter Press Service
In the wooden, sheet-metal roofed house, the exact spot where Vanesa Coicué, an 11-year-old Nasa Indian girl, fell is marked by white and yellow chrysanthemums in a plastic soda bottle, along with a lit candle and an orange tree seedling.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Women Call the Shots on Mega Copper Mine
- Inter Press Service
Whether the world’s largest open-cut mine on this island territory of Papua New Guinea (PNG) will resume copper and gold production, after being mothballed for 22 years, will depend on how satisfied matrilineal landowners are with the proposals.
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