Published today, the Landmine Monitor 2020 reports for the fifth consecutive year of exceptionally high casualties caused by landmines, particularly explosive remnants (ERW) and improvised mines.
On 26th of October, a new report was launched by Airwars and Pax – our partners in the International Network on Explosive Weapons.
Dr. Klaus Lederer, Mayor of Berlin and Senator, Dr. Inez Kipfer-Didavi, Managing Director of Handicap International Germany, and Nivin Almaksour, Syrian survivor of explosive weapons, laid a wreath at the “Memorial for Unknown Civilians” in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
The use of heavy explosive weapons in the cities of Ganja and Stepanakert, and other towns and populated areas in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is killing and injuring civilians, and destroying vital infrastructure.
At the eve of a new military deployment of four Belgian F16 fighter jets in Iraq and Syria, 11 Belgian and international organisations* urge the Belgian government to take immediate steps to improve its level of transparency and accountability for potential civilian casualties.
We are now sleepwalking towards a seventh year of war, and the people of Yemen can only surmise that the world has forgotten them. The UN Secretary General called in March for a global ceasefire tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, but in Yemen this call has not translated into reality on the ground, at the […]
The global pandemic has halted the diplomatic negotiations, while it has also exacerbated the human suffering caused by the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. On September 7th 2020, Ireland invited States’ representatives, UN agencies, international organizations and civil society to a webinar on the Protection of Civilians in Urban Warfare.
The Syrian INGO Regional Forum (SIRF), the NGO Forum, the Syrian Networks League (SNL), and the Syrian NGO Alliance (SNA) share their concern regarding the UN Security Council’s resolution 2504/2165.
International agencies call for Brussels Conference to address fall-out from the pandemic.