Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 711
Q&A: 'Put Yourself in Our Shoes, Mr. President'
- Inter Press Service
'I repeat: there will be no peace talks without concrete actions. Words are not enough,' Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on a visit to Argentina this week. Earlier, in Chile, he said for the first time since taking office a year ago that he was 'willing' to eventually sit down to talks with the guerrillas.
SYRIA: U.S., EU Call for Assad's Ouster
- Inter Press Service
After tiptoeing toward demanding the ouster of Bashir Al-Assad over the last several months, U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday finally jumped over the line with his first explicit call for the Syrian president to resign.
Evidence Mounts of War Crimes Unfolding in Sudan
- Inter Press Service
Witnesses reported that attacks continue on civilian populations in Sudan, even as the United Nations calls for a thorough investigation into violations of international law carried out in South Kordofan state in June.
Why Pakistani Military Demands a Veto on Drone Strikes
- Inter Press Service
Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets U.S. drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here.
COLOMBIA: Grassroots Rural Movement Unites Behind Call for Peace Talks
- Inter Press Service
'Dialogue is the Path' is the slogan that drew 25,000 people to this northern Colombian oil port city on the Magdalena river that has a history of social struggle. Most of the participants came from remote corners of the country where the brutality of war is experienced in daily life in ways unimagined by city dwellers.
SOMALIA: Capital City Still in Need of Thousands of Tonnes of Aid
- Inter Press Service
The shelling and gunshots, once a common sound in Mogadishu, no longer ring out in the city’s streets. The surprise withdrawal on Aug. 6 of the Islamist extremist group Al Shabaab from their stronghold in Mogadishu has meant that people now move about the city, for the first time in two years, without fear of constant attack.
PAKISTAN: Violence Killing the Poor
- Inter Press Service
Taj Bibi’s eyes well up as she recalls the day her ten-year-old son was shot dead, a victim of the violence sweeping through the port city of Karachi since early July. 'My three sons, the 12-year-old twins and Adnan, 10, went out to play cricket in the street after lunch. Around 4 pm, the twins came running to tell me that Adnan had been shot. By the time I got there he’d breathed his last,' said Bibi, a Pashtun.
CANADA: Hawkish Foreign Policy at Odds with Popular Priorities
- Inter Press Service
Canada has flexed its military muscles, first in Afghanistan for nine years alongside NATO forces, and now in Libya in its supply of ships and combat planes for the rebel forces, but little debate has happened on the ground among Canadians themselves on this direction.
PAKISTAN: Gem of a Plan Against Taliban
- Inter Press Service
Mining gems and other valuable minerals may provide, the Pakistan government hopes, alternate careers to militancy in the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), bordering Afghanistan.
UGANDA: Post War Reconstruction Ignores Victims of Sexual Violence
- Inter Press Service
Ester Abeja has experienced both physical and emotional atrocities. She was captured by Uganda's feared rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and was forced to join them. But not before the soldiers made her kill her one-year- old baby girl, by smashing her skull in, and then gang raped her.
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