News headlines for “International Criminal Court”
Countries adopt global blueprint to tackle fast-evolving crime in digital age
- UN News
Countries adopted on Saturday a new global blueprint for tackling rapidly evolving forms of crime, as the UN’s largest gathering on crime prevention and criminal justice opened in Abu Dhabi with a call for stronger international cooperation.
Myanmar: Corporate Complicity in the Spotlight
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, September 25 (IPS) - On 15 September, Norwegian police and security services raided the headquarters of Telenor in Oslo. Authorities accuse the multinational telecoms company, majority owned by the Norwegian state, of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity in Myanmar and breaching sanctions.
From Vienna to New York: Nuclear Governance Faces New Tests Ahead of First TPNW Review Conference
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, September 24 (IPS) - The international nuclear order is facing another test as governments move from an inconclusive review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York to renewed disputes over safeguards and nuclear security in Vienna—and toward the first Review Conference of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) later this year.
When African Smallholders Access Finance, They’ll Show You What’s Possible
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 24 (IPS) - I was born in Rwanda, but my family soon became refugees in Uganda during the conflict and unrest on the cusp of independence. My father was a teacher and went to great lengths to make sure I was well educated. My parents were also smallholder farmers, and I saw firsthand the challenges my parents and other refugee families faced.
A New Arms Race is Threatening to Take-off—this time in Outer Space
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, September 24 (IPS) - The world’s ongoing arms race is threatening to extend beyond planet earth—and spillover into outer space.The US has deployed weapons in space and will use them to defend American forces, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said last week, according to Cable News Network (CNN). His comments marked the first public acknowledgment of such capabilities, though he offered no details about the weapons or when they were put into orbit.
Floods, Hunger and Disease Pile on Myanmar’s Civil War Misery
- Inter Press Service
YANGON, Myanmar, September 23 (IPS) - Isolated and at constant war with itself, Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis is deepening as global challenges far exceed the capacity to respond of a military regime increasingly focused on its own survival.
Sudan: Blood on Foreign Powers’ Hands
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, September 21 (IPS) - Sudan’s civil war grinds on. It’s close to three and a half years since the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia began their battle for supremacy, and the two forces and their allies continue to slaughter civilians with impunity. As a recent UN report makes clear, the killing is enabled by numerous foreign powers that continue to supply weapons, personnel and logistical support. They have made a civil conflict their proxy war, and their self-interest is sustaining the killing.
War in Ukraine: Hungarian Minority Pushed to the Edge
- Inter Press Service
UZHGOROD, Ukraine, September 17 (IPS) - It happened in 1920. At the Grand Trianon Palace at Versailles, the Allies drew a new map of Hungary that sliced away two-thirds of its territory. Such a cartographic mutilation went down in history as the Treaty of Trianon. No country lost more territory after the First World War.
ETHIOPIA: ‘Reporting on Abuses Shouldn’t Be Treated as a Threat to National Interest’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses renewed conflict and a growing crackdown on independent media in Ethiopia with Yonas Kedir, Editor-in-Chief of the independent news outlet Addis Standard, who was recently abducted and detained by government forces.
Bangladesh Must Face Its Quiet Crisis of Internal Displacement
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, September 17 (IPS) - Bangladesh is rightly praised for saving lives during cyclones and floods. Early warning systems, cyclone shelters and community mobilisation have turned once-catastrophic disasters into emergencies in which evacuation is often possible. But behind that success lies a quieter national failure: millions of people are being uprooted inside the country, often more than once, without a clear path back to secure homes, land or livelihoods.
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