Global IssuesNews headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 12
Killings of Palestinian Journalists Continue – Aided by Uninterrupted Flow of US Arms
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 12 (IPS) - The growing number of killings of Palestinian journalists in Gaza has triggered a demand for a cut-off in US arms supplies to Israel.
A letter addressed to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken—and signed by scores of reporters, news outlets and journalist unions—says Israel has killed more than 165 Palestinian journalists since October 7 last year.
Gaza Children's Education, Mental Health Targeted With Emergency Grant
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 08 (IPS) - Since October 2023, 625,000 children enrolled in schools across Gaza have had no access to education, and more than 370 schools have sustained damage from attacks, according to the United Nations.
Cambodia’s Young Environmental Activists Pay a Heavy Price
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Aug 01 (IPS) - It’s risky to try to protect the environment in authoritarian Cambodia. Ten young activists from the Mother Nature environmental group have recently been given long jail sentences. Two were sentenced to eight years on charges of plotting and insulting the king. Another seven were sentenced to six years for plotting, while one, a Spanish national banned from entering Cambodia, was sentenced in absentia.
Kazakhstan tightens laws to combat trafficking of newborns
- UN News
Babies are being sold for up to $4,500 in Kazakhstan, but the government is cracking down on traffickers with a new law adopted earlier this month.
More Poverty for the Poor
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 24 (IPS) - Many low-income countries (LICs) continue to slip further behind the rest of the world. Meanwhile, people in extreme poverty have been increasing again after decades of decline.
The US Election & the Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 23 (IPS) - Today, we are facing a growing and unprecedented array of nuclear weapons dangers. At the same time, this year’s presidential election is also unprecedented, unpredictable, and extremely consequential.
New Military Alliances Forming in the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 22 (IPS) - On the heels of a new alliance announced this summer by Russia and North Korea for a pact pledging mutual defense, with the support of China, it is now shockingly being suggested in South Korea that it review its security policy with the US and end its reliance on the US guarantee, to employ on South Koreas’ behalf, US nuclear weapons as part of its “nuclear umbrella”.
First, it was Food as Weapon of War – Then Came Water…
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 22 (IPS) - The Palestinians in Gaza have been victims of a double tragedy: killings by Israel’s mostly American-made weapons and deaths by starvation.
And now comes a revelation of a new weapon of war: how Israel has been systematically weaponizing water against Palestinians in Gaza, according to a new report from the global human rights organization, Oxfam.
World News in Brief: UN Commission of Inquiry accepts ICJ opinion, continued attacks in Ukraine, improved neurological medicines access
- UN News
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory on Monday welcomed the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) recent advisory opinion declaring Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory as “unlawful.”
Biden Administration Faces Rebellion Within its Own Ranks over Gaza War
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 (IPS) - The Biden administration, which has come under heavy fire for its unyielding pro-Israeli stand on the nine-month-old war in Gaza, is facing a rebellion within its own bureaucratic ranks—12 and counting.
The 12 government officials, who recently resigned, have accused the US of providing diplomatic cover for the continuous flow of arms to Israel ensuring “our undeniable complicity in the killings and forced starvation of a besieged Palestinian population in Gaza.”
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