U.S. Aid Cuts Impact Landmine Programs In Colombia, Posing 'Imminent Risk' To Civilians

U.S. Aid Cuts Impact Landmine Programs In Colombia, Posing 'Imminent Risk' To Civilians

As much as 50% of humanitarian demining projects have been suspended in Colombia due to the Trump administration's funding freeze in January

Rights group welcomes first-ever UN resolution on landmines

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday welcomed the UN Human Rights Council’s first-ever resolution on anti-personnel landmines that was passed on April 4. The Ottawa Convention defines an anti-personnel mine as “a mine designed to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person and that will incapacitate, injure or kill one or more persons.” The UN’s resolution states that countries must cooperate to address the effects of anti-person…

UN Landmines Resolution Highlights Human Rights Impact

Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019 Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP (Geneva, April 14, 2025) – The United Nations Human Rights Council’s first resolution on landmines strongly endorses the long-standing international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel mines at a critical time, Human Rights…

UK Adds to Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime

The U.K. added four Georgian officials to its global human rights sanctions regime April 10. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation sanctioned Shalva Bedoidze, Georgia's first deputy minister of internal affairs; Giorgi Gabitashvili, general prosecutor; Karlo Katsitadze, head of the...