GUEST BLOGGER: “Are you able to understand my pain?”
Posted By: Ana, working on human rights issues in Afghanistan “Are you able to understand my pain?” I hid my…
Marla B in Jordan: Stories from a country away…
Posted By: Marla B. Every day we interview Iraqis now living here in Jordan, so many of whom escaped violence…
Q and A: America and the Cluster Ban Treaty
Over half the world’s governments agreed last week to a ban on cluster munitions. But not the United States. Our…
VIDEO BLOG: Marla B in Jordan, Day 1
CIVIC’s associate director Marla Bertagnolli talks briefly from Jordan about the stories of Iraqi war victims who have fled to…
On to Paris…
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 part of that commitment goes to help those Afghan families and communities caught in the past and ongoing conflict. This weekend I attended the civil society forum on Afghanistan, where NGOs and members of the private sector had a nominal opportunity to provide recommendations and guidance for those representatives deciding the international community’s commitment in June.
GUEST BLOG: At the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions
Posted By: Marc Garlasco, Senior Military Analyst, HRW and CIVIC Board Member Here I am in Dublin at the massive…
Indiscriminate use of force
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 civilians who had pulled over to the side of the road to let the convoy pass.
UN Special Rapporteur speaks out
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 for this international obligation.
A sad story…
Posted By: Erica Today [May 18, 2008] I received the following, very sad story in an email from one of…