According to the American organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Syrian army made recently use of cluster munitions. Handicap International is very concerned about the situation that civilians in the country are facing, given that they constitute the main victims of these weapons. The association condemns any use of cluster munitions and calls on all parties to the conflict to stop the use of...
The 9th Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF9) took place in Vientiane from the 16th to the 19th of October. This international civil society forum, whose motto is "People’s Solidarity against Poverty and for Sustainable Development: Challenging Unjust and Unequal Development, Building States of Citizens for Citizens" is organized prior to and in conjunction with the...
Boniface Kapindo, 60, lives in a small village on the border with the Congo. This father of fourteen used to grow fruit and vegetables in the mountains but since he lost both legs and his left eye in an anti-personnel mine explosion, he has never returned. He was fitted with two artificial limbs at the Fort Portal rehabilitation centre supported by Handicap International. The organisation has...
“He’s 12 and arrived from Syria after he was injured in an explosion and hit by a bullet. He had to have one of his legs amputated and was taken to a facility in Jordan close to the border. Because of the lack of specialised facilities, he didn’t get rehabilitation care. Our teams identified him and since then they’ve case-managed him to make sure he’s monitored and...
Bikram Malla, the third of a family of four boys, was born with club feet. This disability prevented him from walking and feeling at ease with other children. Two years ago, he was successfully operated on with the support of Handicap International. Following his operation, Bikram has now agreed to go to school where he has made lots of friends. A keen student, he sits in the front row of his...
Handicap International is working to clear mines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) still scattered across the province of Savannakhet, in southern Laos. While one team compiles a detailed map of the contaminated areas, another destroys the identified munitions. A third team then raises the awareness of people at risk from these unexploded ordnance . Thanks to this concerted action, our teams...
Ahead of the rainy season, thousands of people are attempting to clear debris from their homes in Brazzaville, despite the possible presence of explosive remnants of war. Handicap International has deployed a team of around 200 people to provide a rapid response to this new danger.
Sophak Phal is a young woman in her thirties who lives with her husband and their two children, thirty kilometers from Kompong Cham on the Phnom Penh road. The family lives in a small house close to a pagoda.
Last week, in Oslo, more than 100 governments are gathered to discuss the progresses made and those still to be made in accordance with the provisions of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.Since their first implication in 2008 in the now well-known Oslo Process-which was launched 6 years ago already- the voices of the Ban Advocates are still raising requesting more efforts from States,...
Lynn made a strong statement on the session on international cooperation and assistance, acknowledging that progress have been made on implementation but critiquing the fact that for what concerns victim assistance funding, few states “are getting the help they need- the help that has been promised through this Convention”.
She reminded the participants to the 3MSP that...
