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This week a letter asking the administration to join the Mine Ban Treaty will be delivered to President Obama by 68 Senators — signifying a key two-thirds Senate majority. “The fact that there are 68 signatories on the Senate letter is especially important given that accession to the treaty must be ratified by a two-thirds majority in the Senate,” said Zach Hudson, the coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL). "The strong support these letters received demonstrates that Congress stands with our NATO allies, and with Americans around the country, in calling for the U.S. to join the Mine Ban Treaty.”
The mountain is called Na Taung by the Burmese and Doi Ya Moo by the Thai, and its peak is on the Thai side of the shared border. The Thailand Mine Action Center (TMAC) arranged for Landmine Monitor researcher Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan to visit the mountain earlier this year. It is the site of a former insurgent camp, but is now a Thai Army outpost. With all warring factions across frontier engaging in mine warfare, the threat of new mine pollution in Thailand remains real.
Campaigners worldwide are stepping up pressure on governments to join the Convention on Cluster Munitions in the final 100 days before it becomes binding international law, the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) said as it launched a countdown to 1 August 2010, when the treaty enters into force.
Geneva, 19 April 2010 -- The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is gravely concerned by reports of antipersonnel landmine use by members of the Turkish Army. Turkey is bound by the Mine Ban Treaty, which prohibits the use of antipersonnel mines in any circumstances.
Landmine and cluster munition survivors worldwide still lack access to services that would fulfill their most basic human rights, said the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) in a joint statement. A conference took place on 8 and 9 April in Vienna to examine how states will fulfill their promises to survivors and their communities.
The ICBL briefed European Commission (EC) and European Union (EU) officials about the challenges and next steps towards a mine-free world, in Brussels on 25 March. Calling for sustained political and financial commitment, the ICBL Executive Director said: "The EC should remain a generous, pragmatic and accessible donor." Commitments made at the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World must now be turned into concrete action.
Funding for mine clearance and victim assistance programs is essential, but is not enough to truly eradicate antipersonnel mines, said the Nobel Peace Laureate International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), on the occasion of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action (4 April).
The full report from the workshop on victim assistance held on the eve of the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World, is now available online.
In March and April, ICBL campaigners held meetings in U.S. embassies throughout the world to urge the U.S. Administration to join the Mine Ban Treaty without delay. In the U.S., leaders of 65 organizations delivered a letter to President Obama calling on the U.S. to join the treaty. You will find here a complete report on this global action.
(01/03/2010, last updated: 08/04/2010) Read more » ( English )
(01/03/2010, last updated: 01/03/2010) Read more » ( English )
The March 2010 edition of the ICBL newsletter is available online! Read about the ICBL reaching its goals at the Cartagena Summit, the USCBL urging the U.S. to join the Mine Ban Treaty, the new Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, as well as campaign news from China, D.R. Congo, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Philippines and Sri Lanka.
In March, Human Rights Watch and other members of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL) are organizing on Twitter and Facebook to tell the U.S. to get on board the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. If you have an account on Facebook or Twitter, you can participate in this initiative.
