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Türkiye: UN experts call for end to harassment of human rights defenders
- UN News
Five UN-appointed independent human rights experts called on Tuesday for Türkiye to stop using counter-terrorism legislation to intimidate human rights defenders and to immediately release Sebnem Korur Fincancı, a senior medic and anti-torture expert.
Lessons from Rome. Weaving Peace Is a Polyphonic Dialogue
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 07 (IPS) - Arms are raised, stretched out towards the sky, holding white cards with the word "peace" written in different languages. A girl, a refugee from Syria, reads the Rome’s "Appeal for peace": "With firm conviction, we say: no more war! Let's stop all conflicts […] Let dialogue be resumed to nullify the threat of nuclear weapons.” Pope Francis singed it in front of the people gathered at the Colosseum, holding the word “peace” in their hands, as representatives of the world’s religions did as well. Shortly before, members of those different religions gathered for prayer to invoke peace in their different traditions—a prayer that is “a cry” inside the ancient amphitheater.
The Women Who Fight Against the Ayatollahs from the Kurdish Mountains
- Inter Press Service
IRAN-IRAQ BORDER, Nov 04 (IPS) - Iran-Iraq border -It usually takes hours of driving in a 4X4 before heading out on foot through a dense forest. There, protected under a sea of beech trees from the view of the drones, it is the guerrillas of the PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan) who find us.
Solidarity and Negotiations to End the Ukraine War
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Nov 03 (IPS) - On November 1, a statement of solidarity with Russians opposed to the Ukraine War was published. It was signed by more than 1,000 U.S. men and women who had opposed the U.S. invasions of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Intimidated, jailed, abused: Threats against journalists harm us all, warns UN chief
- UN News
Governments and the international community must take action to protect the people who bring us the news, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalistsobserved on Wednesday.
Afghanistan: Opium cultivation up nearly a third, warns UNODC
- UN News
The 2022 opium crop in Afghanistan is the most profitable in years with cultivation up by nearly a third amid soaring prices, and despite the multiple humanitarian and economic crises facing the country and it’s Taliban rulers, said the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Tuesday.
ECW's Yasmine Sherif Asks Donors to Redouble Efforts for DRC Displaced Children
- Inter Press Service
Kinshasa, Oct 28 (IPS) - Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) director Yasmine Sherif said that she was “deeply moved” by the resilience of children she met during her week-long visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 3 million children between the ages of 6 and 11 are out of school. However, there was a desperate need for funding.
UN counter-terrorism body backs innovations to fight digital terror
- UN News
The growing threat posed by new and emerging technologies to global security is the focus of a special meeting of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committeewhich opens on Friday in India.
War, Greed and Mass Manipulation
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Oct 26 (IPS) - In his treatise On Warthe Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) stated that war is “merely a continuation of policy with other means”. With his experience from the Napoleonic Wars von Clausewitz knew that totalitarian regimes could end up conducting huge and ruthless military campaigns. Furthermore, he assumed that to win a war it is necessary to mobilize and indoctrinate the inhabitants of an entire nation. Such an endeavour is called total wara term that actually can be applied to Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Swat Women Wont Be 'Duped' by Militants This Time
- Inter Press Service
Karachi, Oct 26 (IPS) - The rise in militancy in Swat still haunts many locals with flashbacks of what they went through 15 years ago.
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