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UN's Annan wants US, Europe to consider force in Darfur
The United Nations wants the United States and European countries to help form a tough mobile force that would stop the bloodshed, rape and plunder in Sudan's Darfur region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
1/16/06
- Reuters
Groups Demand Treaty to Ban International Gun Trade
As diplomats from around the world gather this week to lay the groundwork for a major June summit on arms control, leading rights advocacy groups are demanding that governments agree on a proposed treaty that would ban the illegal trade in guns.
1/10/06
- OneWorld US
UN must act to control deadly arms trade: campaigners
The United Nations must this week pave the way for a treaty to control the sale of small arms that were behind the deaths of one million people since member states last discussed the issue in 2001, campaigners said on Monday. Delegates from U.N. member states hold a preparatory meeting in New York on Monday ahead of a June conference on small arms.
1/8/06
- Reuters
U.S. No Longer Promoting Landmine Ban
In 1994, the United States was the first nation to call for the elimination of landmines that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of innocent people around the world. But that was then. Today, Washington not only stands in opposition to an international treaty that bans the use and production of antipersonnel landmines, but intends to make new ones too.
12/28/05
- OneWorld US
U.S. Resurfaces Opposition to International Court
While senior United Nations officials and diplomats from other countries would like to see the International Criminal Court (ICC) playing an important role in the world community's efforts to deter attacks against innocent civilians during armed conflicts, the United States says no way.
12/22/05
- OneWorld US
Iraqis Glad 2005 Over, Dim Hopes for 2006
Despite the parliamentary elections last week and temporary ease in violence, Iraqis remain bitter about the outgoing year, and sceptical of 2006. The majority of Iraqis in Baghdad now fear the security forces, as dozens of people each week are ''disappeared" by police and soldiers around the city and new torture chambers have been discovered recently.
12/20/05
- OneWorld US
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Hypocrisy Highlighted as Int'l Conference Deadlocks in Week One
A month-long U.N. conference on halting the spread of nuclear weapons neared the end of its first week Friday deadlocked over how to strengthen the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
5/6/05
- Inter Press Service
On Anniversary of Rwanda Genocide, Activists Demand Action on Darfur
Activists invoked this week's anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to ratchet up calls for stronger action on what they termed another unfolding genocide neglected by the international community, this time in western Sudan's Darfur region.
4/8/05
- OneWorld US
Washington’s criminal war against Iraq enters its third year
Today begins year three of the US intervention in Iraq, with its tragic consequences for both the Iraqi and American people continuing to multiply.
3/30/05
- World Socialist Web Site
UN Approves 10,000 Peacekeepers for Southern Sudan
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to authorize a 10,000-strong peacekeeping force for southern Sudan but remained deadlocked on any action for Darfur in the west.
3/25/05
- Reuters
U.N. Now Estimates 180,000 Dead in Sudan
The United Nations now estimates that about 180,000 people have died in Sudan's western Darfur region as a result of violence, disease or malnutrition since October 2003 — 2 1/2 times the previous estimate.
3/17/05
- Associated Press
Over 180,000 Darfur Deaths in 18 Months -- UN Envoy
The U.N. emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, estimates that more than 180,000 people have died in Sudan's Darfur from hunger and disease over the past 18 months, his spokesman said on Monday.
3/15/05
- Reuters
Groups Blast U.N. Security Council for Inaction in Sudan
A coalition of nine non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has blasted the 15-member U.N. Security Council for refusing to take drastic action to end the continued killings in Darfur, western Sudan.
3/14/05
- Inter Press Service
International group of doctors blast official toll of Iraqi civil dead
A group of top public-health physicians has branded the official toll of civilian dead from the Iraqi war as a serious underestimate and demanded an independent probe to establish the full casualty figures.
3/11/05
- Agence France Presse
UN Envoy Says Deaths in Darfur Underestimated
A senior U.N. envoy said on Wednesday that far more people had died in Sudan's Darfur region than the 70,000 previously estimated and chastised African nations for not sending enough peacekeepers.
3/9/05
- Reuters
U.S. Troops Deaths in Iraq Top 1,500
The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq has topped 1,500, an Associated Press count showed Thursday after the military announced the deaths of three Americans, while car bombs targeting Iraqi security forces killed at least three people in separate attacks.
3/3/05
- Associated Press
Bush Bad for Global Peace, US Image, World Believes
As George W. Bush prepares to be sworn in for his second term as U.S. president, a strong majority of the world's people are concerned his tenure is likely to produce more setbacks to the cause of world peace and security, according to a major international poll released Wednesday.
1/20/05
- Inter Press Service
UN, Groups Warn of Renewed Catastrophe in Eastern Congo
The United Nations and several independent groups are warning that renewed fighting in the eastern Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) threatens a major humanitarian catastrophe in the six-year-old conflict that has claimed nearly four million lives.
12/22/04
- OneWorld US
U.S. Will Pursue Aggressive Foreign Policy: Powell
President Bush has a fresh mandate to pursue an "aggressive" foreign policy, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday. Powell said Bush had no intention of pulling back and insisted Bush had a mandate to pursue American national interests in international affairs.
11/9/04
- Reuters
U.S.: Neo-Con Agenda: Iran, China, Russia, Latin America...
An influential foreign-policy neo-conservative with long-standing ties to top hawks in the administration of President George W Bush has laid out what he calls ''a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term.''
11/6/04
- Inter Press Service
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