Downloads related to "Civilians"

Vision 2030: An Alternative Approach to Australian Security.Foreword by the Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser. MAPW 2010 publication which examines the 2009 defence white paper “Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030”, and calls for debate on Australia’s military expenditure and policies. It questions the value of spending on military rather than development projects and challenges the White Paper’s proposals for major weapons acquisitions.

October 26 2009: Letter from MAPW President Dr Bill Williams to Australia's Minister for Immigration Senator Chris Evans, concerning the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka; the world-wide increase in people seeking asylum; and the need for Australia to address the arrival of refugees in a humanitarian fashion, and in line with international human rights standards.

Dr Sue Wareham, President for MAPW, recently gave a speech at the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in regards of landmines and the effects they have on victims.

The impact of the war machine on global warming and health: a political ecological perspective; by Hans Baer (School of Philosophy, Anthropology, and Social Inquiry and Centre of Health and Society, University of Melbourne). Climate change and the environmental effects of the military industry. Forthcoming chapter in: The War Machine and Global Health: A Critical Medical Anthropological Examination of the Human Costs of Armed Conflict and the Violence Industry. Edited by Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge. AltaMira/Roman Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009.

30 APRIL 2009. MAPW President, Dr Sue Wareham, has written to PM Kevin Rudd urging the government to take action and end the violence, helping civilians who are caught in the civil war in Sri Lanka.

French nuclear veterans have strongly criticised a proposed law covering compensation for survivors of French nuclear testing in Algeria and French Polynesia. The law would cover former nuclear workers and military personnel whose health was affected by French nuclear tests. But the victims' supporters argue that almost none would be eligible for compensation. This 4-page article was prepared by Nic Maclellan, December 2008. 

In Dublin between 19 May and 28 May, 110 governments negotiated a new international treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, that will ban cluster munitions that “cause unacceptable harm to civilians”. The treaty bans all the cluster munitions that have been extensively used. This article by Dr Mark Zirnsak, National Coordinator for the Australian Network to Ban Landmines, analyses the outcome, and the Australian government's role.

Ullrich Gottstein's slide presentation demonstrates the vast impacts on the Iraqi people after 1990, including issues of food, education, casualties and more. He visited Iraq in 1998.