Posted on May 29, 2008 by warvictims
Posted By: Erica
On June 12, the French government will host 60 major donors, foreign governments and non-governmental actors, at the Paris Donor Conference for Afghanistan. The Afghan government will be asking the international community to commit to $50 billion in aid for the coming years. We at CIVIC wanted to make sure that at least [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Erica | Tagged: Afghanistan, civil society, civilian casualties, conflict, development, France, government, human rights, humanitarian aid, international, military, Paris, Paris Donor Conference for Afghanistan, relief, War | No Comments »
Posted on May 27, 2008 by warvictims
Posted By: Marc Garlasco, Senior Military Analyst, HRW and CIVIC Board Member
Here I am in Dublin at the massive Croke Park Stadium, with nearly one thousand diplomats and campaigners to write the text of a treaty banning cluster munitions. I never would have thought this event was possible just three or four years ago, [...]
Filed under: Guest Blogger, Marc Garlasco, international | Tagged: arms, civilian casualties, cluster bombs, cluster munitions, conference, conflict, Cooke Islands, Costa Rica, diplomacy, Dublin, France, Gordon Brown, human rights, international politics, Ireland, Mauritania, Mexico, Ministry of Defence, peace, politics, Pope, Togo, treaty, UK, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican, War, weapons | No Comments »
Posted on May 22, 2008 by warvictims
Posted By: Erica
On March 4, 2007, a US Marine convoy killed 19 Afghan civilians and wounded 50 others in one of the worst incidents of indiscriminate fire on Afghan civilians. Fleeing the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Jalalabad city, the Marines fired arbitrarily at passing civilians on the crowded highway, including those [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Erica | Tagged: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilians, conflict, escalation of force, gunfire, Marines, military, peace, United States, War | No Comments »
Posted on May 21, 2008 by warvictims
Posted By: Erica
For the past two weeks the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary executions has been in Afghanistan on a fact-finding mission (See here for a Special Rapporteur definition). His mandate is to look into all violations of the “right to life” in Afghanistan, and provide recommendations for improving respect [...]
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Posted on May 20, 2008 by warvictims
Posted By: Erica
Today [May 18, 2008] I received the following, very sad story in an email from one of the co-workers at my Afghan NGO:
Today at noontime one of the women who works with our Helmand treatment center as a social worker popped in with a few questions. At the polite - to [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Erica | Tagged: War, Afghanistan, US, conflict, Helmand, Bagram, United States, bombs, disappearances, social work | No Comments »
