Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 707
PAKISTAN: Fighting a Taliban-Polio Alliance
- Inter Press Service
With Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province turning into the ‘polio capital of the world’, authorities are warning parents that heeding Taliban propaganda against oral polio vaccination (OPV) could earn them a prison sentence.
Dozens of Bodies Found in Eastern Mexico
- Inter Press Service
The bodies of 35 people who allegedly had links to organised crime have been found in two abandoned lorries on a highway underpass in eastern Mexico, authorities say.
Deadly Fighting Rages in Yemeni Capital
- Inter Press Service
Deadly fighting has spread across Yemen's capital as tribesmen joined battles between rival military units, raising fears among residents the country is descending into civil war.
COLOMBIA: Victims of Sexual Violence Under Threat and on Their Own
- Inter Press Service
'Another one? Another rape?' was the response Mari got at the Attorney General's Office in Colombia when she went to report what she had been through. 'When they said that, I froze and got up and said 'Thank you, I’ll come back another day',' she told human rights defenders later.
New Study Says U.S. Night Raids Aimed at Afghan Civilians
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Special Operations Forces have been increasingly aiming their night-time raids, which have been the primary cause of Afghan anger at the U.S. military presence, at civilian non- combatants in order to exploit their possible intelligence value, according to a new study published by the Open Society Foundation and The Liaison Office.
Q&A: 'Brazil Could Mediate Between Juba and Khartoum'
- Inter Press Service
The world's newest nation, South Sudan, is seeking support from Brazil — the first country in the world to recognise the new nation — in learning the art of diplomacy and defusing tensions and persistent conflicts.
SUDAN: New Conflict Displaces Thousands
- Inter Press Service
The Sudanese government says that a majority of the tens of thousands of people displaced by the fighting in the country’s Blue Nile state have started returning to the area. This is despite reports by local and international aid agencies that say people are still fleeing the region.
Watchdogs Push Hard for War Crimes Probe in Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
Despite months of frustrated efforts to secure a full and impartial investigation into possible laws-of-war violations during the last phase of Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended in 2009, leading human rights advocates in the U.S. launched a fresh charge on the island nation's government this week, vowing that, 'If the Sri Lankan government won't provide justice for victims, the international community will.'
Familiar Hawks Press Obama on Iraq Withdrawal
- Inter Press Service
A familiar group of mainly neo-conservative hawks — many of whom championed the 2003 invasion of Iraq —released an open letter to President Barack Obama Thursday urging him to retain a substantial military force in that Middle East country beyond this year.
COLOMBIA: Uribe's Former Intelligence Chief Sent to Prison
- Inter Press Service
Jorge Noguera, a regional manager of former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe's (2002-2010) election campaign in 2002 and head of the secret police during the Uribe administration, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. 'I trusted him; if he committed a crime it pains me, and I apologise to the people,' Uribe said Wednesday.
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