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With just over two weeks to go until the 11MSP, ICBL interviewed Muteber Ögreten ICBL Campaigner from the Initiative for a Mine Free Turkey. Here Mutebar shares her experience campaigning in an affected country and her views on steps Turkey must take in order to fulfill its treaty obligations.
In the run up to the 11MSP, which is being held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, between 28 November and 2 December 2011, the ICBL will be highlighting the amazing work of some of our campaigners from around the world. Read their stories in their own words and how they are working hard to Push For Progress towards a mine free world.
With three weeks to go until the 11MSP, ICBL interviewed Amir Mujanovic (Muja), the Executive Director of Landmine Survivors Initiatives and ICBL Campaigner. Here Muja shares his experience of working in a country affected by landmines and his work with survivors who have inspired him.
(Geneva, 2 November 2011): The Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is highly disturbed by reports that Syrian government forces have laid antipersonnel mines along the Lebanese border. The ICBL condemns all use of this inhumane weapon.
“There is absolutely no justification for the use of these indiscriminate weapons by any country, anywhere, for any reason,” said Kasia Derlicka, Director of ICBL.
The first reports of new mine-laying by Syrian forces surfaced over the weekend. A Syrian official was quoted as saying the mines are meant to prevent arms smuggling. Others have speculated the mines are intended to prevent citizens from fleeing the crackdown on anti-government protests in Syria.
To launch the one month countdown to the Eleventh Meeting of States Parties (11MSP), ICBL interviewed Sister Denise Coghlan - Director of Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in Cambodia and member of the Cambodian Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Sister Denise has been based in Cambodia and involved in the landmine issue and the campaign for more than 20 years. Here she shares her experience, knowledge and passion for the issue and the campaign.
(Geneva, 22 September 2011): The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has acceded to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, the United Nations announced yesterday. Tuvalu’s accession brings the total number of states now party to the lifesaving ban to 157. It is the first country to join since November 2007 when Palau, another Pacific nation, aceeded to the ban. Kasia Derlicka, Director of the ICBL said: “It’s vital that even small countries ban landmines, as the more states that join the stronger the global norm that the use of antipersonnel mines by anyone is unacceptable.”
(Geneva, 14 September 2011) The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is calling on the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) and its allies to immediately secure the weapons stocks that are increasingly being discovered as pro-Gaddafi forces retreat, preventing further looting of these weapons, including large numbers of landmines.
(Geneva, 16 August 2011): Humanitarian campaigners fighting for a mine-free world have strongly condemned Israel’s planting of new antipersonnel mines along the Syrian border with the Golan Heights.
Recent reports have indicated that the mines are being laid to prevent the movement of protestors from Syria into the disputed territory.
“There can be absolutely no justification for the use of these indiscriminate weapons, and to hear that these mines are aimed at civilians is particularly shocking,” said Kasia Derlicka, Director of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).
Since the conflict broke out in Libya in March 2011 pro-Gaddafi forces have laid what could amount to thousands of anti-personnel and anti-vehicle mines. Some of these lethal minefields are around towns or cities, or close to busy roads.
Human Rights Watch and other agencies have documented the use of hundreds of landmines in at least six different locations in Libya, and there are indications that many more have been used.
Having reacted strongly to this new use of this internationally banned, inhumane and indiscriminate weapon the ICBL has been receiving questions from all over the world about the use of landmines in Libya. We have therefore prepared these Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to respond to the most common questions asked.
(Geneva, 12 July 2011) The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) condemns in the strongest possible terms the horrific killing of four deminers from the Demining Agency for Afghanistan (DAFA) in Farah province of Afghanistan and the abduction of another 27 members of DAFA’s staff.
In total, 31 members of staff from DAFA, including 20 civilian deminers, were abducted while clearing landmines in Shamalga village of Balabuluk district on Wednesday 6 July 2011.
Four of those abducted were cruelly killed, including one who it is believed was beheaded. Fortunately, the ICBL understands that the remaining 27 have been released .
Researchers from Human Rights Watch have found hundreds more landmines laid close to the town of al-Qawalish in western Libya.
Despite repeated condemnation from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), and States Party to the Mine Ban Treaty, Libyan government forces continue to use this indiscriminate, internationally banned weapon.
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