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Cluster Bombs - INTER PRESS SERVICE (21.07.2010 20:48h): UN's Big Five Facilitate Arms Transfers to Rights Violators
The five permanent members of the Security Council - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - are accused of facilitating the transport of conventional weapons and cluster munitions to countries where they could be used to commit human rights violations and war crimes. [
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DISARMAMENT (19.06.2010 14:37h): France Urged to Ban Cluster Bomb Funding
Human rights groups are urging the French government to adopt a law that would ban the financing of companies that produce cluster munitions, the deadly bombs that have killed or maimed thousands of civilians in the past 40 years. [
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POLITICS (19.06.2010 14:37h): Cluster Bomb Ban to Become Law – Without U.S.
Just over a year after it was opened for signature, an international treaty banning cluster bombs received the final two ratifications it needed to become international law Tuesday. [
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MIDEAST (19.06.2010 14:37h): Gazans Brace for Cold, Bleak and Miserable Winter
Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel's blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material. [
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US-CUBA (19.06.2010 14:37h): NGOs Hail Congressional Moves to Ease Embargo
Leading advocates for lifting the nearly 50-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba are hailing Congress's approval Tuesday of a general appropriations bill that eases - albeit in a mostly symbolic way - several restrictions on travel and sales to the Caribbean nation. [
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DISARMAMENT (19.06.2010 14:37h): New Treaty Bans Weapons Victimising Civilians
When the United Nations talks of "Israeli-occupied territories", the conventional definition is that these disputed lands include the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights - all of them annexed after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. [
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POLITICS (19.06.2010 14:37h): Russia-Georgia Conflict Left Legacy of Displaced
As the European Union launches a probe into the conflict between Georgian and Russian troops in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia last August - with much of the blame now being cast on Georgia for firing the first shots - thousands of civilians remain displaced and homeless at the start of winter. [
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POLITICS (19.06.2010 14:37h): Japan Supports Ban on Cluster Bombs
A dramatic decision to join a ban on most types of inhumane weapons was announced by Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda at an international conference attended by 110 nations in Dublin at the end of May. On the last day of the conference, the Japanese government, which had wavered, said it would support the ban. [
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IRELAND (19.06.2010 14:37h): Less Bombs Here, More There
Irish diplomats won plenty of kudos from governments across the world over the past week for brokering a ban on cluster bombs during an international conference in Dublin. It may seem ironic, then, that despite having a decades-old tradition of military neutrality, Ireland has deepened its involvement in the arms trade in recent years. [
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RIGHTS (19.06.2010 14:37h): Cluster Bombs May Drop Out of Sight At Last
Cluster bombs should be outlawed in most of the world thanks to an agreement formally endorsed by over 100 governments in Dublin May 30. [
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POLITICS (19.06.2010 14:37h): Cluster Bomb Ban Passed Over U.S. Objections
After more than a year of contentious negotiations, diplomats from 109 countries meeting in Dublin agreed Wednesday on a treaty that would outlaw the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster munitions, which have killed and injured thousands of civilians over the last four decades. [
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THEATRE-US (19.06.2010 14:37h): The Year the War Came Home
On this 40th anniversary of 1968, the year that for the United States was the apogee of opposition to the war in Vietnam, two new Off Broadway plays explore divergent ways that U.S. citizens protested - and ponder the best way to contest a senseless war. [
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LEBANON (19.06.2010 14:37h): Peace Brings No Joy to Children
Over the years, Lebanese children have faced war and bombings enough to make violence a staple in their lives. With the situation becoming increasingly volatile as Lebanese factions are gripped by a lasting and deadly discord, this vulnerable population is left at greater risk. [
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RIGHTS (19.06.2010 14:37h): Grudging Support For New Cluster Munitions Treaty
Six-year-old Umarvek Pulodov was playing in the dining room of his home in Shul village, Tajikistan, when a cluster bomb pierced through the roof, instantly killing his brother, cousin and another relative and severely injuring him, his sister and two younger brothers. [
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RIGHTS-US (19.06.2010 14:37h): Congress Takes Action on Cluster Bombs, Child Soldiers
Human-rights and humanitarian groups are hailing provisions of a major appropriations bill approved by Congress this week that bans the export of most U.S.-made cluster bombs and U.S. military aid for foreign governments that use child soldiers. [
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LEBANON (19.06.2010 14:37h): Palestinians Brave a Hazardous Profession
Kamel Mohammed was pruning lemon trees last winter when his red electric saw detonated an unexploded cluster bomb, blasting shrapnel all over his body. After an operation to remove the metal shards from his chest, Mohammed, a 44-year-old father from the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidieh in south Lebanon, went straight back to work cultivating fields and chopping wood for coal. [
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DISARMAMENT (24.04.2010 06:25h): France Urged to Ban Cluster Bomb Funding
PARIS, Apr 22 (IPS) - Human rights groups are urging the French government to adopt a law that would ban the financing of companies that produce cluster munitions, the deadly bombs that have killed or maimed thousands of civilians in the past 40 years. [
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POLITICS (01.01.1970 00:00h): Cluster Bomb Ban to Become Law – Without U.S.
WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (IPS) - Just over a year after it was opened for signature, an international treaty banning cluster bombs received the final two ratifications it needed to become international law Tuesday. [
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MIDEAST (01.01.1970 00:00h): Gazans Brace for Cold, Bleak and Miserable Winter
EZBT ABBED RABBO, Nov 16 (IPS) - Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel’s blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material. [
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US-CUBA (01.01.1970 00:00h): NGOs Hail Congressional Moves to Ease Embargo
WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (IPS) - Leading advocates for lifting the nearly 50-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba are hailing Congress's approval Tuesday of a general appropriations bill that eases - albeit in a mostly symbolic way - several restrictions on travel and sales to the Caribbean nation. [
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DISARMAMENT (01.01.1970 00:00h): New Treaty Bans Weapons Victimising Civilians
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4 (IPS) - When the United Nations talks of "Israeli-occupied territories", the conventional definition is that these disputed lands include the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights - all of them annexed after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. [
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POLITICS (01.01.1970 00:00h): Russia-Georgia Conflict Left Legacy of Displaced
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 25 (IPS) - As the European Union launches a probe into the conflict between Georgian and Russian troops in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia last August - with much of the blame now being cast on Georgia for firing the first shots - thousands of civilians remain displaced and homeless at the start of winter. [
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POLITICS (01.01.1970 00:00h): Japan Supports Ban on Cluster Bombs
TOKYO, Jun 8 (IPS) - A dramatic decision to join a ban on most types of inhumane weapons was announced by Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda at an international conference attended by 110 nations in Dublin at the end of May. On the last day of the conference, the Japanese government, which had wavered, said it would support the ban. [
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LEBANON (01.01.1970 00:00h): Palestinians Brave a Hazardous Profession
TYRE, Lebanon, Dec 18 (IPS) - Kamel Mohammed was pruning lemon trees last winter when his red electric saw detonated an unexploded cluster bomb, blasting shrapnel all over his body. After an operation to remove the metal shards from his chest, Mohammed, a 44-year-old father from the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidieh in south Lebanon, went straight back to work cultivating fields and chopping wood for coal. [
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POLITICS (01.01.1970 00:00h): U.S. Agrees to Talks on Cluster Bombs
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (IPS) - As anti-cluster bomb advocates rallied in 40 cities around the world on Monday as part of a Global Day of Action, the United States delegation to a U.N. conference in Geneva this week announced a reversal of its longstanding opposition to negotiations on cluster munitions. [
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