Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 734
Pakistan Minorities Minister Killed
- Inter Press Service
Pakistan's minister for minorities has been shot dead by armed men in Islamabad.
Pregnancies Don't Wait for Emergencies to End
- Inter Press Service
When disaster strikes, the initial humanitarian response tends to focus on basic commodities like food and shelter. But as the crisis or conflict drags on, other critical needs often go unmet — such as prenatal care for pregnant women, and emergency contraception for victims of sexual assault.
Families Trapped in Cote d'Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
Armed men have blocked some 60 families without food or water from leaving a church in Cote d'Ivoire's commercial city, the U.N. says.
Kurd Issue to the Fore Ahead of Elections
- Inter Press Service
Sultan Quyun, 58, longs for the day when the decades-long conflict between the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces will come to an end. For her, the end of violence does not just hold the promise of a possible resolution of the Kurdish issue in the country, but would bring about, she hopes, a much-awaited reunion with her son.
Peace Before Women's Rights, or Women's Rights Before Peace?
- Inter Press Service
1325. It's a combination of digits that might not mean much to the majority of the world's population, but these four numbers are a crucial tool in the global struggle for gender equality.
Bill Would Aid Afghan Women Caught in U.S.-led War
- Inter Press Service
As conflict continues to rage in Afghanistan, the U.S. Congress is gearing up to debate a bill that could support the country's long-oppressed women in their struggle to achieve gender equality, even in the years after the U.S. military occupation ends.
COLOMBIA: A Chance for Peace
- Inter Press Service
The Colombian government's greater openness to dialogue and the recent release of hostages by that country's FARC guerrillas have created a climate in which it is possible to move in the direction of a negotiated solution to an armed conflict that has dragged on for nearly half a decade.
IRAQ: Eight Years of Abuses and Impunity
- Inter Press Service
A leading human rights group released a report Monday documenting the proliferation of human rights abuses in Iraq since the United States' invasion in 2003.
INDIA: Red Link With Nepal Fades
- Inter Press Service
With the powerful Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) relinquishing control of its fighting arm, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the Indian government, faced with its own Maoist insurgency, can breathe more easily.
Residents of Razed Afghan Village Dispute U.S. Case for Destruction
- Inter Press Service
The commander of U.S.-NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. James Terry, asserted last month that the homes systematically destroyed by U.S. forces across three districts of Kandahar province as part of Operation Dragon Strike in October and November 'were abandoned, empty and wired with ingenious arrays of bombs'.
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