Protect civilians against armed violence
As conflicts are increasingly fought in cities, civilians represent 90% of the victims. States gather at the Vienna Conference on October 1st and 2nd to find a political solution to the harm caused by bombing in urban warfare.
As conflicts are increasingly fought in cities, civilians represent 90% of the victims. Civilians represented 50% of the victims during WWII, 15% during the WWI. This trend of modern conflicts is unacceptable.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, issued yesterday an appeal highlighting the devastating impact of explosive weapons on the lives of civilians.
Two years after “Everywhere the bombing followed us”, Humanity & Inclusion – Handicap International introduces its new report!
From 2nd to 4th September, the 9th Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (MSPCCM) took place in Geneva under the presidency of Sri Lanka. Most of the more than 100 state parties were represented.
International non-governmental organisations working in Yemen strongly condemn a series of attacks by the Saudi-led coalition on a former community college that has lately been used as a detention facility in Dhamar city.
Released today, the 2019 Cluster Munition Monitor* report reveals that at least 149 people were killed or injured by cluster munition attacks and remnants in a total of eight countries and one territory, in 2018.
This week, 18-19 June, the thirteenth edition of the European Development Days (EDD) ‘Addressing inequalities: building a world which leaves no one behind’ took place in Brussels.
In 1999, the protection of civilians in armed conflict became a specific item on the agenda of the UN Security Council. Today, civilians are still bearing the brunt of the conflicts in Libya, Myanmar, Nigeria, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen… Civil Society Organisations, including HI, will be in New York next week to call States for […]