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28.04.2008 KontraS menilai, sebenarnya penyelidikan dan penyidikan kasus-kasus pelanggaran HAM berat bisa dimulai tanpa adanya Pengadilan HAM Ad Hoc. Kejaksaan dapat dikatakan menggunakan argumentasi yang sudah tidak relevan setelah adanya putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi.
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Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [Arms & military] [Law] [Justice and crime] [Civil rights] [Human rights]
24.04.2008 Whatever happens to the Chinese arms shipment destined for Zimbabwe, the case highlights the urgent need for the UN to work towards an Arms Trade Treaty at a meeting in New York later this month, says a leading development group.
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From: Oxfam International
Related topics/regions: [Zimbabwe] [China] [Arms & military] [Trade]
Soldiers Speak Out video.
21.04.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 21 (OneWorld) - About 300,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or major depression. Another 320,000 veterans likely suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), a type of physical brain damage often caused by explosions from roadside bombs.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Iraq] [Afghanistan] [Conflict] [Arms & military] [Governance] [Health]
Image: Soldiers Speak Out video.
Etelä-Libanonissa käytettyjä rypäleammuksia.
18.04.2008 Rauhanliitto vaatii Suomen hallitusta liittymään rypäleaseiden täyskieltoa kannattavien maiden joukkoon. Kansainväliset rypäleaseneuvottelut alkavat Dublinissa ensi kuussa.
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From: Peace Union of Finland
Related topics/regions: [Finland] [Arms & military] [War and peace]
Image: Etelä-Libanonissa käytettyjä rypäleammuksia.
Rifle
18.04.2008 Wherever you live, this year's Stop the Arms Trade Week (1-8 June) is a great opportunity to take coordinated local action against the weapons trade.
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Image: Rifle © Oxfam Great Britain
08.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [Sudan] [Somalia] [Africa] [United Nations] [Security] [Peace] [Conflict resolution] [Conflict] [Arms & military] [Geopolitics] [International cooperation]
Image: © Christophe Boulierac / DPI / United Nations
UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
08.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
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Image: UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. © Christophe Boulierac / DPI / United Nations
Somali family displaced by fighting between the Union of Islamic Courts and the Ethiopian-backed Somali government; January 2007.
04.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 3 (OneWorld) - A leading humanitarian group is calling for the United Nations Security Council to take additional measures to help about 1 million Somalis who have been rendered homeless by the ongoing armed conflict in their country.
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Related topics/regions: [Somalia] [Ethiopia] [United Nations] [Security] [Conflict] [Arms & military] [Refugees] [Emergency relief] [Aid]
Image: Somali family displaced by fighting between the Union of Islamic Courts and the Ethiopian-backed Somali government; January 2007. © Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

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