Ishida Diary

数多くのNGOが、国連に対し、コンゴ民主共和国（DRC）への武器禁輸措置を強化するよう共同で要請したとのことです。

すごいな・・・。

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アムネスティ発表国際ニュース
2008年12月15日

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武器の流入によって危機に陥るコンゴ民主共和国
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コンゴ民主共和国（以下DRC）東部・北キブ州での、重装備武装集団と政府軍による紛争により、これまでに30万人が家を追われている。また、過去10年間で数百万人が亡くなった。

国連が、長年武器禁輸措置を実施してきたにもかかわらず、武装集団は武器、弾薬、軍事装備、その他の軍事物資を入手できていた。それにより、武装集団の兵士は、戦争犯罪や一般市民に対する広範な人権侵害を実行できたのである。

コンゴ国軍もまた、数々の人権侵害に責任がある。北キブ州の人口のうち、約4人に1人は避難民となっている。

アムネスティ・インターナショナルをはじめとする数多くのNGOは、国連に対し、DRCへの武器禁輸措置を強化するよう共同で要請した。国連の安全保障理事会では、本日、DRCへの武器禁輸の期間について議論する会合を予定している。NGOは安全保障理事会に対し公開書簡を送り、武器と弾薬の拡散によって、DRCでは依然として広範にわたる殺害や強かん、その他の深刻な人権侵害など、一般市民に対する暴力が日常的に続いていると訴えた。

公開書簡では、国連平和維持活動派遣団である国連コンゴ共和国監視団（MONUC）には、DRC内に武器が移転された際に、軍備品を確実に保護し、配給、貯蔵、使用できるようにするため、国軍の特定の部隊にそれを運営させるための手続きが欠けていると書かれている。

さらに、限定的な例外地域を除き、DRC全地域に武器禁輸措置を拡大するか、あるいは、少なくとも、MONUCの監視下によって軍事物資が管理される必要性に焦点を当てた、5つの具体的な勧告を実施するよう呼びかけている。

また、NGOは、DRC政府が、国軍を軍事職業集団として専門化できておらず、武器の備蓄を適正に管理できていないという問題を国際社会が解決するため、緊急の対策を講じるよう、国連安保理に対し要請した。

最後に、公開書簡は、国連加盟国が武器禁輸措置だけに頼るのではなく、国連憲章と国際人権法の原則を中核に据えた国際的な武器貿易条約（ATT）の早期の成立に向けて協力するように訴えている。国連総会は来週、武器貿易条約を次の段階に進めるための投票を予定している。

公開書簡に署名したＮＧＯは以下の通り。（アルファベット順）
Africa Peace Forum [Kenya]; Albert Schweitzer Institute [USA]; Amnesty International sections in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Senegal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK and the USA; Arche d'Alliance [DRC]; Asociacion para Politicas Publicas (APP) [Argentina]; Association Pour Les Victimes De La Repression En Afrique [DRC]; Australian National Coalition for Gun Control; AVEVENA [DRC]; Awaz Foundation Pakistan: Centre for Development Services [Pakistan]; Bahrain center for human rights [Baharin]; Broederlijk Delen [Belgium]; Cameroon Youths and Students Forum for Peace and the African Youth Forum for Peace [Cameroon]; Ceasefire [South Africa]; Center for Evironment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) [Nigeria]; Center for Peace Education [Philippines]; Centre for Conflict Management and Women Development Affairs (CECOWDA) [Malawi]; Centre for Justice and Reconciliation [The Netherlands]; Centre Women and Modern World [Azerbaijan]; ChangeMaker - Society for Social and Economic Development [Bangladesh]; CHRR [Malawi]; Civil Organization Promoting Peace in Youth (COPPY) [Antigua and Barbuda]; Col.lectiu d'Educacio en drets humans i de Prevencio Activa de Conflictes (CEPAC); Collectif des associations de lutte contre la torture - CALCOT [DRC]; Commission on Peace and Justice [Haiti]; Council of Churches [Sierra Leone]; East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (EHAHRDN) - Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda; Global Witness [UK]; Handicap International; HEWAD, Reconstruction, Health and Humanitarian Assistance Committee [Afghanistan]; Human Rights Institute of South Africa; Human Rights Network [Nigeria]; IANSA - International Action Network on Small Arms [UK]; Institute for Security Studies [Kenya]; Institute of Human Rights Communication, Nepal (IHRICON) [Nepal]; Instituto Sou da Paz [Brazil]; International Alliance of Women (IAW) ; International Childcare Trust [UK]; International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR)/ Mouvement International de la Reconciliation (MIR) [The Netherlands]; Journalists for children and women rights and protection of environment in Macedonia; Latifa Gono Sohay Angan (LGSA) [Bangladesh]; Le Reseau Action Femme [DRC] ; Liberians United to Expose Hidden Weapons [Liberia]; Ligue Burundaise des Droits de l'Homme (ITEKA) [Burundi]; Ligue des Droits de l'Homme de la Region du Grand Lac [DRC, Burundi, Rwanda]; Ligue International pour les Droits de l'Enfant (LIDE) [Togo]; L'Observatoire des transferts d'armement [France]; Medical Association for Prevention of War [Australia]; Network Women in the Rural Population [Haiti]; Norwich & District Branch of the United Nations Association. [UK]; Norwich Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [UK]; OFAT [Haiti]; Organisation de femmes pour l'avancement de la commune de Thomonde [Haiti]; Pacific Concerns Resource Centre [Fiji]; Patron of All India Women,s Conference New Delhi [India]; Pax Christi International; Pax Christi Vlaanderen [ Belgium]; Peace Boat USA; Peace Direct [UK]; Peace Union of Finland; Project Ploughshares [Canada]; Reseau des associations de protection des droits de l'enfant (RAPDE) [DRC]; Reseau des defenseurs des droits humains en Afrique centrale (REDHAC) [Gabon, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Central-African Republic]; Reseau Ouest Africain des Defenseurs des droits de l'homme (ROADH) [Benin, Burkina Faso, Cap Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo]; S.E.A organisation [DRC]; Saferworld [UK]; Save Africa on Environment by Empowerment [Nigeria]; Secours Catholique/Caritas France; Secretary Forum of Mauritian Journalists [Mauritius]; Securitas Congo [DRC]; Sierra Leone Action Network on Small Arms (SLANSA); SOFEPADI-RDC [DRC]; Solidarite pour la Promotion des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples (PRODOP) [Cameron]; South Asia Partnership (SAP) [Nepal]; South Asian Civil Society Net Work Against Small Arms (SASANET) [Sri Lanka]; Southern Sudan Action Network on Small Arms [Sudan]; Stand Up For Peace [DRC]; Tanzania Human Rights Foundation (TAHURA); TransArms-Europe ; Vlaams Netwerk Lichte Wapens [Belgium]; WAANSA West African Action Network on Small Arms; Widows for Peace through Democracy [UK]; Women in Alternative Action [Cameroon]; Women in Black ? Belgrade [Serbia]; Women of vision association; Women of Vision Association [Nigeria]; Women's League of Burma.

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15 December 2008

Crisis in DRC caused by access to weapons

Clashes between heavily-armed groups and government forces in the North Kivu region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have forced nearly 300,000 people to flee. Millions have died in the past ten years.

Despite a UN arms embargo that has been in place for years, armed groups have been able to get hold of weapons, ammunition, military equipment and other supplies. This has allowed them to commit war crimes and widespread human rights abuses against civilians.

The Congolese army has also been responsible for numerous human rights violations. Around one in four of North Kivu's population is now displaced.

Amnesty International, jointly with dozens of other organizations, called on the United Nations to strengthen its arms embargo on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In an Open Letter to the UN Security Council, which is meeting today to discuss the embargo terms, the groups say that daily abuses against civilians, including widespread killings, rape and other serious human rights violations continue to be committed in the DRC because of the proliferation of weapons and ammunitions.

The Open Letter describes the lack of any procedure for MONUC, the UN's peacekeeping force, to ensure that military equipment is properly safeguarded, distributed, stored and used by named units of the DRC armed forces when arms enter the DRC.

The Open Letter calls on the Council to extend the arms embargo to the whole of the DRC, with limited exceptions, or at least to implement five specific recommendations, focusing on how military material must be better tracked under MONUC supervision to prevent it being diverted.

The organizations called on the UN Security Council to encourage urgent steps by the international community to help address the DRC government's lack of progress towards professionalizing its security forces and securing its arms stocks.

The Open Letter concludes by urging UN member states to not only rely on arms embargoes but to cooperate towards the early establishment of a global Arms Trade Treaty with the principles of the UN Charter and international human rights law at its heart. The United Nations General Assembly is set to vote on moving forward on an Arms Trade Treaty next week.

The signatories of the Open Letter are:
Africa Peace Forum [Kenya]; Albert Schweitzer Institute [USA]; Amnesty International sections in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Senegal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK and the USA; Arche d'Alliance [DRC]; Asociacion para Politicas Publicas (APP) [Argentina]; Association Pour Les Victimes De La Repression En Afrique [DRC]; Australian National Coalition for Gun Control; AVEVENA [DRC]; Awaz Foundation Pakistan: Centre for Development Services [Pakistan]; Bahrain center for human rights [Baharin]; Broederlijk Delen [Belgium]; Cameroon Youths and Students Forum for Peace and the African Youth Forum for Peace [Cameroon]; Ceasefire [South Africa]; Center for Evironment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) [Nigeria]; Center for Peace Education [Philippines]; Centre for Conflict Management and Women Development Affairs (CECOWDA) [Malawi]; Centre for Justice and Reconciliation [The Netherlands]; Centre Women and Modern World [Azerbaijan]; ChangeMaker - Society for Social and Economic Development [Bangladesh]; CHRR [Malawi]; Civil Organization Promoting Peace in Youth (COPPY) [Antigua and Barbuda]; Col.lectiu d'Educacio en drets humans i de Prevencio Activa de Conflictes (CEPAC); Collectif des associations de lutte contre la torture - CALCOT [DRC]; Commission on Peace and Justice [Haiti]; Council of Churches [Sierra Leone]; East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (EHAHRDN) - Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda; Global Witness [UK]; Handicap International; HEWAD, Reconstruction, Health and Humanitarian Assistance Committee [Afghanistan]; Human Rights Institute of South Africa; Human Rights Network [Nigeria]; IANSA - International Action Network on Small Arms [UK]; Institute for Security Studies [Kenya]; Institute of Human Rights Communication, Nepal (IHRICON) [Nepal]; Instituto Sou da Paz [Brazil]; International Alliance of Women (IAW) ; International Childcare Trust [UK]; International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR)/ Mouvement International de la Reconciliation (MIR) [The Netherlands]; Journalists for children and women rights and protection of environment in Macedonia; Latifa Gono Sohay Angan (LGSA) [Bangladesh]; Le Reseau Action Femme [DRC] ; Liberians United to Expose Hidden Weapons [Liberia]; Ligue Burundaise des Droits de l'Homme (ITEKA) [Burundi]; Ligue des Droits de l'Homme de la Region du Grand Lac [DRC, Burundi, Rwanda]; Ligue International pour les Droits de l'Enfant (LIDE) [Togo]; L'Observatoire des transferts d'armement [France]; Medical Association for Prevention of War [Australia]; Network Women in the Rural Population [Haiti]; Norwich & District Branch of the United Nations Association. [UK]; Norwich Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [UK]; OFAT [Haiti]; Organisation de femmes pour l'avancement de la commune de Thomonde [Haiti]; Pacific Concerns Resource Centre [Fiji]; Patron of All India Women,s Conference New Delhi [India]; Pax Christi International; Pax Christi Vlaanderen [ Belgium]; Peace Boat USA; Peace Direct [UK]; Peace Union of Finland; Project Ploughshares [Canada]; Reseau des associations de protection des droits de l'enfant (RAPDE) [DRC]; Reseau des defenseurs des droits humains en Afrique centrale (REDHAC) [Gabon, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Central-African Republic]; Reseau Ouest Africain des Defenseurs des droits de l'homme (ROADH) [Benin, Burkina Faso, Cap Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo]; S.E.A organisation [DRC]; Saferworld [UK]; Save Africa on Environment by Empowerment [Nigeria]; Secours Catholique/Caritas France; Secretary Forum of Mauritian Journalists [Mauritius]; Securitas Congo [DRC]; Sierra Leone Action Network on Small Arms (SLANSA); SOFEPADI-RDC [DRC]; Solidarite pour la Promotion des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples (PRODOP) [Cameron]; South Asia Partnership (SAP) [Nepal]; South Asian Civil Society Net Work Against Small Arms (SASANET) [Sri Lanka]; Southern Sudan Action Network on Small Arms [Sudan]; Stand Up For Peace [DRC]; Tanzania Human Rights Foundation (TAHURA); TransArms-Europe ; Vlaams Netwerk Lichte Wapens [Belgium]; WAANSA West African Action Network on Small Arms; Widows for Peace through Democracy [UK]; Women in Alternative Action [Cameroon]; Women in Black ? Belgrade [Serbia]; Women of vision association; Women of Vision Association [Nigeria]; Women's League of Burma.

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