Armed Conflicts

OPINION: Why Nuclear Disarmament Could Still Be the Most Important Thing There Is

By Risto Isomaki
At the height of the Cold War the world’s total arsenal of nuclear weapons, counted as explosive potential, may have amounted to three million Hiroshima bombs.  The United States alone possessed 1.6 million Hiroshimas’ worth of destructive capacity.

Refugees Between a Legal Rock and a Hard Place in Lebanon

By Oriol Andrés Gallart
Staring at the floor, Hassan, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee from Idlib in northwestern Syria, holds a set of identification papers in his hands. He picks out a small pink piece of paper with a few words on it stating that he must obtain a work contract, otherwise his residency visa will not be renewed.

Mexico’s Undead Rise Up

By Charlotte María Sáenz
“Alive they were taken, and alive we want them back!”

OPINION: Israel’s Arabs – Marginalised, Angry and Defiant

By Emile Nakhleh
The recent killing of an Arab youth by the police in the Israeli Arab village of Kufr Kanna, outside Nazareth, the ongoing bloody violence in Jerusalem, and the growing tensions between the Israeli security services and the Arab community in Israel could be a dangerous omen for Israeli domestic stability and for the region.

Pakistani Sikhs Back in the ‘Dark Ages’ of Religious Persecution

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Balwan Singh, an 84-year-old shopkeeper living in Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is well past retirement age, but any illusions he may have had about living out his golden years in peace and security have long since been dashed.

IPS Honours Crusader for Nuclear Abolition

By Roger Hamilton-Martin
Jayantha Dhanapala was awarded the IPS International Achievement Award for Nuclear Disarmament Monday at the United Nations in New York.

OPINION: The Clock Is Ticking for Nuclear Disarmament

By Jayantha Dhanapala
A nuclear weapon-free world can and must happen in my lifetime. This may seem a bold and wildly Pollyannaish statement for me to make after a lifetime of work in peace and disarmament.

Depression Casts Cloak of Infertility Over Kashmir Valley

By Shazia Yousuf
It was almost midnight when Mushtaq Margoob woke up to the incessant ringing of his phone. It was his patient, a young woman whom Margoob, a renowned Kashmiri psychiatrist and head of the department of psychiatry at the only psychiatric hospital in Kashmir, had been treating for depression for many years.

OPINION: Why Israel Opposes a Final Nuclear Deal with Iran and What to Do About It

By Robert E. Hunter
Nov. 24 is the deadline for six world powers and Iran to reach a final deal over its nuclear programme. If there is no deal, then the talks are likely to be extended, not abandoned.

OPINION: Will There be Peace Between Iran and the West?

By Emma Bonino
In just a few days, a meeting is scheduled that will be decisive for the security of the Middle East and of the whole world.

Fighting the Islamic State On the Air

By Karlos Zurutuza
There is daily news broadcasting at 9 in the evening and a live programme every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. For the time being, that is what Mosul´s only TV channel has to offer from its headquarters in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Pushing the Voice of Syrian Women For a New Future

By Shelly Kittleson
For most Syrian women, the war has been a disaster. For some, it has also been liberating.

25 Years After Rights Convention, Children Still Need More Protection

By Susan Bissell
Next week marks 25 years since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a historic commitment to children and the most widely accepted human rights treaty in history.

War-ravaged South Sudan Struggles to Contain AIDS

By Charlton Doki
Dressed in a flowered African print kitenge and a blue head scarf, Sabur Samson, 27, sits pensively at the HIV centre at Maridi Civil Hospital in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state. 

Dhanapala to Receive IPS Award for Nuclear Disarmament

By Thalif Deen
Jayantha Dhanapala, a former U.N. under-secretary-general for disarmament affairs (1998-2003) and a relentless advocate for a world free of nuclear weapons, will be the recipient of the 2014 International Achievement Award for Nuclear Disarmament sponsored by Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency.

Ebola and ISIS: A Learning Exchange Between U.N. and Faith-based Organisations

By Azza Karam
The simultaneity presented by the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus on one hand and militant barbarism ostensibly in the name of Islam on the other present the international development community - particularly the United Nations and international NGOs – with challenges, as well as opportunities.

Fishing for Peace in Korea

By John Feffer and Michal Witkowski
Environmental problems, by their nature, don’t respect borders. Air and sea pollution often affect countries that had nothing to do with their production. Many extreme weather events, like typhoons, strike more than one country. Climate change affects everyone.

Disciples of John the Baptist also flee ISIS

By Karlos Zurutuza
"Going  back home? That would be suicide. The Islamists would cut our throats straight away," says Khalil Hafif Ismam. The fear of this Mandaean refugee sums up that of one of the oldest yet most decimated communities in Mesopotamia.

Women Challenged by Rising Extremism and Militarism

By Thalif Deen
Ongoing military conflicts in the strife-torn Middle East - specifically in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Palestine - have resulted in widespread civilian casualties, impacting heavily on the most vulnerable in besieged communities: women and children.

Choosing Between Death and Death in Pakistan

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Residents of the Khyber Agency, one of seven administrative districts that comprise northern Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), are in the worst possible predicament: either course of action they choose now, they say, could result in death.

Children in Aleppo Forced Underground to Go to School

By Shelly Kittleson
Winter has not yet hit this nearly besieged city, but children are already attending classes in winter coats and stocking hats.
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