News headlines for “International Criminal Court”
This Is Not Just Ukraine: The Global Danger of Normalising Russia’s Occupation Crimes
- Inter Press Service
KYIV, June 16 (IPS) - People often discuss Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine in terms of drones, missiles, shifting front lines, and territorial borders. But this war has another dimension — the human one.
Monica Juma: Steering global cooperation at a time of converging threats
- UN News
Criminal networks are moving faster, reaching further and blurring the lines between threats. Into this shifting landscape steps Monica Juma, taking on one of the UN’s most demanding security and justice portfolios.
Nuclear Nonproliferation Outcomes Stall in Backdrop of Geopolitical Strife
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, June 15 (IPS) - On principle, the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons is an issue that unites the international community. But for a select few states, these principles came with conditions and a refusal to compromise on their security strategy.
Security Council weighs future of UN war crimes mechanism as closure nears
- UN News
The Security Council on Friday weighed the future of the UN mechanism responsible for completing the remaining work of the international tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, as members debated how to preserve its legacy while bringing its mandate to an orderly close.
UN Urgently Calls for Increased Aid in Yemen Following IPC Warnings of Food Insecurity
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (IPS) - In Yemen, increasing funding constraints on humanitarian operations have put millions of civilians in dire need of life-saving assistance amid overlapping crises. Acute food insecurity is a persistent issue, as recent reports from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) give a stark warning of conditions without urgent intervention.
Trump Administration Weaponises Sanctions Against Human Rights
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, June 10 (IPS) - For a few days in May, Francesca Albanese could live more easily. On 13 May, a US federal judge ruled that sanctions the Trump administration imposed on her violated her right to free expression. The government was forced to remove the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories from its sanctions list. But the reprieve lasted barely a week. On 27 May, after an appeals court suspended the ruling, the US Treasury restored sanctions.
The Moral, Practical, Necessary Invigoration of Nuclear Sanity
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, June 10 (IPS) - Martin Luther King Jr. , when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, reminded us of “The fact that most of the time human beings put the truth about the nature and risks of the nuclear war out of their minds because it is too painful and therefore not ‘acceptable’, does not alter the nature and risks of such war. The device of ‘rejection’ may temporarily cover up anxiety, but it does not bestow peace of mind and emotional security.” I have devoted many decades of my life to not ignoring the risk of nuclear annihilation and since 1995 have attended every Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to learn and hopefully contributed to a saner safer world.
Amid Rising Military Tension in War Zones, World’s Nuclear Powers are Modernizing Their Arsenals
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, June 9 (IPS) - As ongoing military conflicts in Europe and the Middle East continue with no signsof winding down, there is increasing focus on nuclear weaponsamid heightened risks of escalation.
New Geopolitics Threatens More Food Crises
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 9 (IPS) - Recent geopolitical trends threaten more food crises, especially in developing countries. A new IPES-Food report urges a strategy of ‘resilient self-reliance’, proposing available opportunities to improve equity, sustainability and solidarity.
GAZA: ‘If Civilians Can Get This Close to Establishing a Humanitarian Corridor, Then Governments Can Do It’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla on its mission to bring humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza with Musa Roshdy, a humanitarian activist who took part in the flotilla.
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