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Continuing our campaigner interviews as part of ICBL’s 20th Anniversary celebrations, we speak to Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, a veteran campaigner who has been involved with the campaign since 1994.
Yeshua covers research on Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa for the Ban Policy section of the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor of the ICBL-CMC. In this fascinating interview he tells us about his work in Myanmar (Burma), and his hopes for this heavily affected country.
In the second week of ICBL’s 20th Anniversary celebrations, we speak to Bekele Gonfa from Ethiopia, a country affected by landmines. Bekele is a Victim Assistance Focal Point and is Technical Advisor of a local NGO called YYGM which is currently implementing a Survivors Network Project (SNP) with a grant from the ICBL-CMC. He was Country Director for Landmine Survivors Network (later Survivor Corps) between 2003-2009. Bekele continues to work tirelessly to assist the rehabilitation of survivors, families and entire communities throughout Ethiopia.
Activists use anniversary to call on international community to put a final end to antipersonnel landmines.
(New York, USA, 19 October 2012): The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is today celebrating 20 years of campaigning for a world free of landmines. Events marking this anniversary will take place in over 20 countries this fall. In October 1992, the ICBL, a global civil society movement, was born to put an urgent stop to a humanitarian crisis, which was leaving more than 20,000 people killed or maimed by antipersonnel mines every year.
(17/10/2012, last updated: 17/10/2012) Read more » ( English )
To launch ICBL’s 20th anniversary celebrations, and the countdown to the 15th Anniversary of the signing of the lifesaving Mine Ban Treaty, we are profiling a selection of our amazing ICBL campaigners and their work. We kick off with veteran ICBL campaigner Mary Wareham, Senior Advisor to the Human Rights Watch Arms Division and coordinator of the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition.
For more information on our anniversary activities and how you can get involved and join the celebrations click our 20th anniversary logo on the left of this page. Help us celebrate with action!
The below chronology shows how the ICBL kick started the global movement to ban landmines, and how the campaign's diverse global members play a vital role - both then and now - in driving the world forward to achieve the movement's humanitarian aims.
Several landmine survivors took part in the inspirational London Paralympic Games in the last two weeks, proving alongside hundreds of fellow competitors that what the rest of the world might think is impossible is actually quite the opposite.
All the survivors who took part were from heavily mine-infested countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Turkey, where millions of people still live with the daily threat of landmines and other explosive remnants of war.
Celebrities and global leaders joined landmine victims and thousands worldwide and called for a final stop to landmines
The ICBL called for all to join the Mine Ban Treaty on worldwide day of action
(Geneva, 3 April 2012): Thousands of people in more than 70 countries rolled up their pant legs on 4 April as part of an inspirational global day of action calling for a full stop to the harm landmines still cause.
View a video on youtube that shows the campaign action that took place in more than 70 countries.
(Geneva, 2 August 2012): The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is deeply concerned by recent claims that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) – the main armed opposition group currently fighting the Syrian government – intends to use landmines in armed conflict against the Assad regime. On Wednesday 1 August 2012 an Al Jazeera report featured a statement from a combatant who said he was with the rebel group, and that the FSA would re-use antipersonnel mines that they have lifted from minefields laid by Syrian government troops near the Turkish border earlier this year.
(Geneva, 2 August 2012): This week the N-Peace, a multi-country network to strengthen the role of women in building and restoring peace, announced that Ms. Amina Azimi from Afghanistan as the winner of the Emerging Peace Champion Award 2012. The award aims to support the emerging leadership of young women who can motivate other young people to get involved in peace building.
(Geneva, 12 January 2012): Finland has become the latest nation to join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, which comprehensively bans the use, production, trade, and stockpiling of antipersonnel landmines. Finland deposited its instrument of accession at the United Nations in New York on Monday 9 January 2012, the United Nations has announced.
All sub-Saharan African nations now on board the Mine Ban Treaty
(Geneva, 22 May 2012): Somalia has become the 160th State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty, the United Nations confirmed today.
This morning the news was announced to delegates from more than 95 countries, assembled in Geneva for a global conference to discuss progress on the landmine ban.
(Geneva, 25 May 2012): A meeting of nearly 100 states and dozens of international organisations to discuss progress on the global ban on antipersonnel landmines ended today with both good and bad news.
While celebrating landmine-affected Somalia becoming the 160th State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty this week, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) has also been compelled to raise alarm bells at the conference.
(Geneva, Friday 13 July 2012): In an unprecedented statement yesterday, Myanmar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said that the government is considering banning antipersonnel landmines. This message gives hope for thousands in the country still living in the deadly shadow of these weapons.
Kasia Derlicka, ICBL director, said: “Never before have any of Myanmar’s officials directly said that they would consider banning landmines by joining the Mine Ban Treaty. While we welcome this announcement we also want to see these words followed by actions very soon. As we have been saying for many years, halting use of mines and joining the Treaty are vital first steps to putting a final end to the landmine threat.”
View a collection of incredible photographs of landmine survivors in Burma, taken by photographer Giovanni Diffidenti last October, on our photo gallery page.
The fifth edition of the ICBL-CMC newsletter celebrates all sub-Saharan African states having now banned anti-personnel mines and reports back from the Intersessional Meetings in Geneva, as well as news from national campaigns. Read it online here
