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Demining funds maintained despite world economic woes

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:55:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Efforts to get rid of landmines are making good progress in many countries and funding is being maintained despite government budget constraints, a key meeting in Cambodia that closed 2 December shows. But work remains, with 4,000 new victims of landmines each year: six people died in Pursat Province, Cambodia, which hosted [...]

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Mine Ban Monitor lauds progress but 12 states still produce, 3 laid new mines

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:00:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – There is some good news on the landmine front, the “Landmine & Cluster Munitions Monitor 2011″ (full report online), issued 23 November reports, but it is dampened by news that three countries laid landmines this year, with two of them, Israel and Libya confirmed. Myanmar is the third suspect, and four non-state [...]

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Iran says US creating “collision course”

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:38:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Iran Friday 4 November suggested the US is setting the countries on a collision course, as the US and Britain “advance contingency plans”, according to the Guardian, for an attack on Iran, should new fighting break out in the Middle East. Tensions are rising in the US and the UK over Iran’s [...]

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Swiss condemn Israel for measures against Palestine

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:06:07 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss government said Wednesday night 2 November that it condemns Israel for two new measures, voted by the Israeli cabinet Tuesday, shortly after Unesco admitted Palestine as a member. Bern stopped short of calling the measures retaliatory, but it notes that the decision by Tel Aviv to “speed up construction of [...]

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Shalit and 477 others head home: Israeli-Hamas swap underway (update)

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:16:21 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Palestinian envoy raises ire of Canadian gov’t Egyptian TV’s interview with Shalit shocks some as exploitation GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It is not being hailed as a gesture with implications for Middle East peace, but there is widespread relief over the release of Israeli prisoner Galid Shalit by Palestine’s Hamas after five years, and 477 Palestinians [...]

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Ban pressures UN to move on Palestinian state demand

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:49:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, opened the UN General Assembly in New York Wednesday with a plea to resolve the Israeli-Palestine impasse, saying that while Israel needs security, Palestine needs statehood. The remarks were made in the presence of US President Obama and Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas. The US insists that Palestinian membership [...]

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UN experts in Geneva say Israel’s blockade of Gaza is not legal

Laila Rodriguez — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:04:43 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A panel of five independent UN rights experts reporting to the Human Rights Council unanimously rejected the conclusion of the Palmer Report that says Israel’s blockade of Gaza is legal. On a statement produced by the UN in Geneva on 13 September, the panel says it rejected the Palmer Report findings because [...]

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Israel critcized over new landmines use

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:10:38 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Gazmend Turdiu, who presides over the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or Ottawa Convention, spoke out sharply against Israel’s renewed use of landmines, during a visit to Geneva 6 September to prepare for the Convention’s November meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Israel, which is not a party to the Convention signed by 156 states, [...]

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Nobel Prize group condemns Israel for planting new landmines

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:40:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The ICBL calls on Israel to immediately clear its minefields GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - The Nobel Peace Prize laureat group International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) has lashed out at Israel for planting new mines, for the first time in over a decade, in the Golan Heights, near the Israeli-Syrian border. Libya and Myanmar are the [...]

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Dead daughter’s frozen eggs create legal first

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:22:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The case of a family in Israel who asked that their daughter’s eggs be harvested and frozen after she was declared brain dead 3 August may well be a world legal first, according to specialists interviewed by the Guardian in the UK and Ha’aretz news agency in Israel. The girl, Chen Aida Ayash, died [...]

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