At the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Landmines: Treacherous weapons" at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History, Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid played the game and lent her leg. Handicap International indeed installed a podium for people attending the event to show their solidarity to the victims and survivors of mine for the International Mine...
Together with Hildegarde Vansintjan and Jeanne Battello, from HI Headquarters in Brussels, we made profit of my visit in Belgium for the Colloquium to set a meeting with the Tajik Ambassador in Belgium. We received a warm welcome by the Ambassador himself and his team in a beautiful house. I was really happy to see the Embassy and to be given a chance to discuss with the delagation of my...
My name is Umedjon, as a mine survivor, representative of TCBL [Tajik Campaign to Ban Landmines] and as member of the Ban Advocates group, I participated to a colloquium organized in Belgium on the 28th of March 2013.
It was titled “The Ottawa Convention: the first step towards humanitarian disarmament” and has been held at the Royal Higher Institute for Defence in Brussels, in the...
According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), after decades of war and conflict, Iraq is now the country most heavily contaminated by mines and explosive remnants of war in the world. These weapons were used on a massive scale during internal conflicts, the Iran/Iraq War (1980-1988), the Gulf War (1991) and the Anglo-American military intervention in 2003.
Depuis 1979 et l’arrivée au pouvoir de Saddam Hussein, l’Irak a connu trois guerres meurtrières, des répressions sanglantes dont celles des Kurdes et des chiites, et plus de dix ans d’embargo. Le 20 mars 2003, une coalition menée par les Etats-Unis et le Royaume-Uni intervient en Irak.
Since 1979 and the rise to power of Saddam Hussein, Iraq has endured three deadly wars, bloody...
Mr. Fakhir Madhi is 58. He is the father of seven children. He lives in Al-Amarah, near Missan. Fakhir worked as a doctor before his accident in 2011. Attending a football match won by the Iraqi national team, he was hit by a stray bullet fired in celebration.
Wahid was 12 when he had his accident. On 29 June 2003, Wahid was walking with his nine-year old brother in his neighbourhood, Kerbala, in the south west of Baghdad, when a strange metallic object caught his eye. Wahid grabbed it and the object exploded.
The tiny village of Sharkan, in the region of Choman, in the north of Mosul, sits in a valley bordered by hills and snow-topped mountains. Shy and avoiding eye contact, Rabin Ibrahim brings some tea and begins his story.
Muhammad Ali says he is a lucky man. He “only lost one leg: others are crawling around on all fours like children”. As he was trying to demine his own field, in 1992, Muhammed Ali stepped on a Valmara, an Italian bounding anti-personnel mine that torn off his leg.
Albania- March 2013
Following Albania's ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [CRPD] last 11th of February 2013, various round tables have been conducted by Alb-Aid for mine,UXO and clustermunitions survivors in Gramsh and Gerdec with the aim of informing them on the rights of people with disabilities.
The aim of those roundtables was to increase the...
