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(Geneva, October 7, 2008) (UNHCR) - The head of the UN refugee agency praised the “heroic” work of mine clearers before presenting this year’s prestigious Nansen Refugee Award to staff and partners of the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre (UNMACC) for their key role in enabling hundreds of thousands of displaced people to resume a normal life in southern Lebanon.
“One of the most heroic types of humanitarian work is to demine or dismantle these devices in order to allow people to go back home and resume their lives,” Guterres said Monday evening, before handing the Nansen Medal and certificates to Chris Clark, coordinator of UNMACC’s Mine Action Programme in Lebanon, and to Jamal Hammoud, a Lebanese mine clearance supervisor.
Urging Senators, President-Elect to Ban Cluster Munitions
(Chicago, October 7, 2008) - Soraj, a 17-year old boy from Afghanistan who lost both legs to an American cluster bomb, Raed, the father of a five-year-old boy killed by these weapons in south Lebanon, and Lynn, the mother of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq while cleaning up U.S. dropped cluster bomblets have gathered in Chicago. They will travel to key mid-western states from October 6-15 to build public support for Senate legislation that would effectively ban the U.S. from using and exporting cluster bombs.
The Cluster Munition Coalition is supporting the National Regulatory Authority for UXO, Lao in hosting a media trip from 19th-21st October to Laos, the most cluster bomb affected country in the world, for journalists wishing to cover the historic signing of the groundbreaking new treaty banning cluster bombs, by over 100 governments this December.
It will include interviews with victims in and around their homes, access to hospitals, a prosthetic limb centre, the chance to film/photograph clearance teams including a live demolition and a visit to The Plain of Jars, the heritage site denied to the world because of extensive cluster bomb contamination. Strong personal stories have been identified with media appeal.
(Serbia, October 2, 2008) An epic trip designed to help end the suffering of millions around the world begins this afternoon.
Setting out from Belgrade The Ban Bus will travel 10 thousand kilometres through Europe and arrive in Oslo to coincide with the signing of the world’s most significant disarmament and humanitarian treaty in more than a decade, in December.
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