Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 733
LIBYA: Aid Groups Struggle with Rising Tide of Refugees
- Inter Press Service
The international community is ramping up efforts to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in Libya, with has affected over 200,000 people since the Muammar Gaddafi regime first began a violent crackdown on opposition forces some three weeks ago.
Arab World Protests Could Reignite Anti-Nuke Campaign
- Inter Press Service
The global civil society campaign for the abolition of nuclear weapons could be politically reignited by the phenomenal successes of the grassroots demonstrations in Egypt and Tunisia, shadowed closely by Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Jordan.
Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Côte D'Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
The U.N. has announced that some 200,000 people have already fled the Abobo neighbourhood, in the north of Abidjan. Each morning for a week now, luggage on their backs, bundles on their heads, the sick riding in wheelbarrows, new borns cradled in their arms, thousands of people have fled Abobo on foot.
SOMALIA: Rising Human Cost of AU Mission
- Inter Press Service
On Feb. 19, the morning after Uganda's presidential elections, Michael Muhamuza called home and spoke to his cousin and his brother; a regular check-in with the family.
SOMALIA: New Partners for Peace Needed
- Inter Press Service
The four-year old African Union Mission in Somalia is fighting a desperate defensive action in support of a transitional government that is 'corrupt and inept', according to the International Crisis Group
Ivorian Women Fatally Shot at Rally
- Inter Press Service
Security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, Cote d'Ivoire's disputed president, have shot dead at least six women at a demonstration in support of his rival, Alassane Ouattara, witnesses said.
Q&A: 'We Denounce the Militarisation of Our Lives'
- Inter Press Service
Paramilitary groups in Colombia continue to threaten, harass and violently attack women's rights activists, says Patricia Guerrero, founder of a leading human rights group.
U.S., European Weapons Makers Still Dominate Arms Bazaar
- Inter Press Service
The world's key arms manufacturers are still firmly entrenched in the United States and Western Europe, while some of the newly-emerging military industries in China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Israel, Turkey and Kuwait are trailing mostly far behind.
LIBYA: Thousands of Foreign Labourers Trapped in Turmoil
- Inter Press Service
As violent unrest continues unabated in Libya, with the potential to descend into what U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called a 'protracted civil war' in statements to lawmakers here this week, international rights groups are raising the alarm over the resulting humanitarian crisis and the particularly desperate plight of stranded immigrant labourers.
Pakistan Minorities Minister Killed
- Inter Press Service
Pakistan's minister for minorities has been shot dead by armed men in Islamabad.
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