Posted on March 11, 2009 by warvictims
I trekked across the Sinai Peninsula after watching the fighting from the Armistice line for a few weeks in December and January. Israel wouldn’t let human rights monitors into Gaza, so I decided to take my team of researchers in through Egypt once the fighting stopped. I’ve been to Gaza twice before – in 2004 when there were still settlements there, and again in 2006 after they were removed, and I consider myself seasoned to working in war zones. But the tragedy I faced in Gaza hit me hard.
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Posted on June 5, 2008 by warvictims
Over half the world’s governments agreed last week to a ban on cluster munitions. But not the United States. Our government not only skipped the deliberations, but continues to defend its policy of keeping and using these deadly weapons.
Why won’t America join the movement to ban cluster munitions? Our executive director Sarah Holewinski sat down [...]
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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, [...]
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