By Julia McGeown, Global Inclusive Education Specialist, HI. This photo, taken yesterday at UK parliament, shows a panel debate organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Education, where the focus was on Girls’ education. HI made sure that the additional challenges for girls with disabilities, was also on the agenda!
Humanity & Inclusion (HI) was present at the Fourth Review Conference to the Convention on the Prevention of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction in Oslo last week.
22 years after the entry into force of the Treaty, the Fourth Review of the Convention on the Prevention of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction has started this Monday in Oslo and will last until the 29th of November.
The panel debate is organised by Humanity & Inclusion – Handicap International, within the frame of the European Development & Disability Week 2019 (3-10 December).
On Monday, 18 November, at the United Nations in Geneva, States’ delegations, militaries, UN agencies and civil society will gather to start negotiations on a political declaration against the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
Humanity & Inclusion was in NY (US), to encourage states to join the joint statement on the use of explosive weapons delivered by Ireland during the debate on conventional weapons of the UN General Assembly’s 1st Committee.
This year’s Humanitarian Congress Berlin which took place on the 17th and 18th of October brought together more than 800 humanitarians, government officials, human right and environmental activists and young professionals to discuss the “Humanitarian Impacts of Climate Change”.
After nearly a decade of nation-wide conflict, the Turkish incursion into northeast Syria reignites the cycle of violence, worry and uncertainty for people living in the area. HI is deeply concerned about how the military escalation will affect the civilian population.
133 states gathered for two days at the Vienna Conference “Protecting Civilians in Urban Warfare”. A majority of attendants announced that they were ready to work on a political declaration.