Ukraine and allies blame Russia for strike on station that killed over 50
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine and its allies blamed Russia for a missile attack that killed at least 52 people at a train station packed with women, children and the elderly fleeing the threat of a Russian offensive in the east. As regional authorities scrambled to continue evacuating the vulnerable, European Union leaders visited Kyiv to offer […]
Russia may have committed ‘war crimes’ in Ukraine, says UN rights boss
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Russia may have committed war crimes by killing civilians and destroying hospitals in its pounding of Ukrainian cities, the top United Nations human rights official said on Wednesday in her strongest comments yet on the conflict. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet urged Russia to end its five-week invasion. […]
Almost 100 per cent of all cluster munition-caused casualties in 2017 were civilians, says report
Civilians accounted for 99 per cent of all cluster munition-caused casualties in 2017, according to the latest Cluster Munition Monitor report. Released last week, the Cluster Monition Coalition report found there were at least 289 new cluster munition-caused casualties recorded in 2017 including 187 in Syria and 54 in Yemen. Cover of the Cluster Munition […]
ESSAY: NEW TREATY BANS WORST TYPES OF CLUSTER MUNITIONS
Dr MARK ZIRNSAK, national co-ordinator for the Australian Network to Ban Landmines and the director of the Justice and International Mission Unit, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, Uniting Church in Australia, examines what the new treaty means…