Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 737
South Sudan: Women Dream of Independence
- Inter Press Service
John Garang, the revered late leader of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement, once said that women are the 'the poorest of the poor and the marginalised of the marginalised'. As the reality of an independent South Sudan approaches, the region's women have vowed they will not remain second class citizens.
Women's Coalition Denounces Exclusion by Security Council
- Inter Press Service
In October 2001, the United Nations Security Council endorsed a resolution recognising that women's participation is essential to sustain efforts for peace in the world. But did the international body ever ask world's women leaders to take part in the decision-making process?
South Sudan Voters Die in Ambush
- Inter Press Service
At least 11 more people have been killed in violence over southern Sudan's historic referendum, officials have said.
Oil Leak, Haiti, Afghanistan Dominated 2010 U.S. TV News
- Inter Press Service
The disastrous BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, and the continuing war in Afghanistan comprised the major news stories in 2010, according to the latest annual review of network news coverage by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
The Peace Dividend in South Sudan
- Inter Press Service
This is the story of Francis Odong, a southern Sudanese man from Eastern Equitoria state.
Tribe Warns of War over Sudan Vote
- Inter Press Service
A tribal leader in Sudan's flashpoint region of Abyei has given a war warning, six days before south Sudan votes on whether to split from the north.
How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO
- Inter Press Service
The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there.
PERU: Army's Version of Civil War Events Questioned
- Inter Press Service
A decade after the end of Peru's 20-year counterinsurgency war was officially declared, the army broke its silence, to give its own version of events.
INDIA: Life Term for Activist a Setback for Human Rights
- Inter Press Service
The life sentence served on Dr Binayak Sen on charges of helping Maoist rebels in eastern India has rattled people and organisations fighting to strengthen human rights in a country that prides itself on being the world’s biggest democracy.
PERU: Decades On, Women Remain Last in Line for Justice
- Inter Press Service
Investigations of the raping of women in the 1980s during Peru's counterinsurgency war have ground to a halt, even though the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission filed the respective complaints in 2004. Not one sentence has been handed down for the soldiers alleged to have committed the rapes, while more victims come forward.
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