Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 740
LAOS: For Cluster Bomb Survivors, War Far From Over
- Inter Press Service
Eighteen-year-old Phongsavath Manithong rubbed his eyes with the back of his arms as he described how his life changed forever.
Multi-Billion-Dollar Arms Deals Could Haunt U.S.
- Inter Press Service
When the Shah of Iran, a strongly pro-U.S. ally, was ousted from power after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the stridently anti-U.S. regime of Ayatollah Khomeini that captured power also inherited a military bonanza: billions of dollars worth of state-of-the-art weapons provided by the United States.
DEATH PENALTY: Sudan Still Sentencing Minors to Death
- Inter Press Service
Four minors are among nine people who have been sentenced to death for a carjacking in Khour Baskawit in South Darfur. The case has raised fresh concerns over protection for children's rights in Sudan.
BOOKS-US: Dissecting the Perpetual War Machine
- Inter Press Service
Andrew J. Bacevich emerged in the first decade of the century as this country's most widely read and widely respected critic of U.S. militarism and empire.
Cancer Treatment Out of Reach for Ugandan Women
- Inter Press Service
Josephine Adongo's heart leapt when she heard that two doctors from Kampala were offering free medical exams in Soroti. She was diagnosed with cervical cancer at a regional hospital more than a year previously, but unable to afford to travel to the capital for treatment.
Sexual Violence Is Not 'Collateral Damage'
- Inter Press Service
On the tenth anniversary of a groundbreaking U.N. resolution, a conference on 'Women and War' opened here Wednesday to discuss the disproportionate impact violent conflict has on women and possible ways to prevent these atrocities.
POLITICS: Cluster Munitions Treaty Leaves U.S. Behind
- Inter Press Service
A campaign to rid the world of cluster munitions has still to rope in the U.S. government, a major producer and stockpiler of the deadly payload, on the eve of a key global conference in Laos to ban its production and use.
Afghan Women Demand Liberation, Not Lip Service
- Inter Press Service
Afghanistan will not know peace until women are equal participants in negotiations, stresses a report released Thursday by the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Female Factor Key to Human Rights
- Inter Press Service
Gender training for peacekeeping operations 'is not something you do for two weeks before you go for deployment,' says Florence Butegwa, UNIFEM representative to the African Union (AU) and U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
SUDAN: Rape Is Not Adultery
- Inter Press Service
Women in the Sudanese region of Darfur have been raped with impunity since the start of the conflict there in 2003. Now a campaign to reform the rape law is gaining momentum in the country, promoted by Alliance 149, a national coalition born in late 2009.
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