{"id":4256,"date":"2008-09-18T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T20:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2008-09-18T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T20:39:42","slug":"oneworldnet-mine-clearers-awarded-for-work-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4256","title":{"rendered":"OneWorld.net: Mine Clearers Awarded for Work in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 18, 2008<\/a><\/strong>
\nLaure Chedrawi, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)<\/strong><\/p>\n

OneWorld.net note: <\/strong>A group of Lebanese and international deminers will receive a prestigious human rights award for their work, which has cleared the way for nearly 1 million displaced people to safely return home<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Marwa,<\/a>

Marwa, an 11-year-old from Aita Shaab in southern Lebanon, receiving treatment last year for injuries stemming from a cluster bomblet that exploded while she was playing with it. \u00a9 Dina Debbas \/ IRIN<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, an Israeli investigative committee ruled Israel’s use of cluster bombs during the July 2006 war<\/a> in Lebanon — fought against the armed \twing of the Lebanese political party Hezbollah — to be a violation of international law with regards to protecting civilians.<\/p>\n

In 2006, tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, a powerful Shia militia active in southern Lebanon, erupted into a month-long conflict. “In the final 3 days of the conflict with the ceasefire looming, [Israeli] aircraft sprayed up to 4 million cluster bomblets over southern Lebanon. Over 1200 Lebanese were killed, most of them civilians, and a quarter of the population was displaced,” explains OneWorld.net in its Lebanon country guide<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Nansen Award: Mine clearers in Lebanon win Nansen Refugee Award<\/strong>
\nFrom: UNHCR<\/a><\/p>\n

By Laure Chedrawi<\/p>\n

BEIRUT, Lebanon, September 15 (UNHCR) \u2013 The 2008 Nansen Refugee Award will go to a group of international and Lebanese deminers who have cleared tens of thousands of mines and cluster munitions in southern Lebanon, allowing hundreds of thousands of displaced people to return home.<\/p>\n

[Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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