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Research Coordinator/Editor at Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor, Independent scholar on Civil Resistance and Humanitarian Disarmament, comments own
Also posting at @yeshuamp.bsky.social
Today, observed globally, is a powerful reminder of the countless lives devastated by enforced disappearances—an egregious violation of human rights that persists in societies across the world.
Civilians and civilian infrastructure are #NotATarget.
They must be protected.
At all times.
Everywhere.
Y Moser-Puangsuwan
@yeshuamp
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Myanmar’s armed forces have used an apparently domestically produced cluster bomb in attacks in several parts of the country since 2021, including as recently as yesterday, 31 August 2023.
Cluster Munition Monitor Briefing Paper released today:
http://stopclustermunitions.org/media/3383154/Briefing-paper_CM-in-Myanmar_Final-31-Aug.pdf
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Burma #Myanmar #banclusterbombs

Leading up to #WorldHumanitarianDay, the @UN cautions that aid worker casualties remain distressingly high in 2023.

Despite growing risks, humanitarian workers are committed to help, #NoMatterWhat.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/08/1139817

Despite growing risks, humanitarians uphold commitment to serve #NoMatterWhat

Conflict and insecurity in countries such as South Sudan and its neighbour to the north are set to make 2023 another year of high death tolls and and injuries for aid workers in the field, the UN warned on Thursday. 

UN News
George Orwell was a timeless writer. I stumbled across this quote inside the cover of his book On Truth in a small library in a 100 year old house in Pattani, Thailand yesterday.
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Russia, Belarus, Ukraine: Protection and asylum for deserters and conscientious objectors to war.