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Saturday 19 November 2011
Until the end of December 2011 U.S. Federal employees can help support the ICBL’s global campaign to reduce the devastating effect landmines have on thousands of communities as part of the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), the world's largest workplace charity campaign.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is a worldwide network of experts and campaigners that has been working to rid the world of antipersonnel mines for 20 years.
A huge amount has been achieved since the movement began in 1992 – with 158 states now having banned the weapon. But much more needs to be done. There are still more than 4,000 new victims of mines recorded globally every year and 72 states or areas still contaminated by the deadly weapon. The ICBL’s work is far from over, but with your help we can reach our aim.
Balloon release during an initiative of the Proud Students Against Landmines/Cluster Bombs and the West Virginia Campaign to Ban Landmines/Cluster Bombs.
Courtesy of Nora Sheets
To support the ICBL, enter code 55130.
Additional information on the Combined Federal Campaign: www.opm.gov/cfc
If you wish to donate to the ICBL but are not a U.S. Federal employee, visit our Donate Now page. You can donate online through a secured PayPal page or by regular mail. Residents of United States and France will be provided with a tax receipt.
About the ICBL
Co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize along with the campaign’s original coordinator Jody Wiliams, the ICBL supports hundreds of national organizations in almost 100 countries and helps drive forward and synchronize advocacy and awareness-raising activity worldwide to ensure countries fully implement the ban and keep pushing to achieve a world where mines will never again claim the lives or limbs of innocent civilians.
The ICBL is charged with monitoring states’ progress against the ban, ensuring they clear all their mined land and destroy their stockpiles, address the needs of victims and fully respect their rights and report to the international community each year on their activities.
The movement’s energetic and motivated campaigners all over the world are working every day to educate society about this problem - setting up media awareness, meetings with government and military officials and by working with groups supporting survivors and their needs.
The huge gains already made to rid the world of this weapon shows that civil society really has the power to change things. You can be part of that change by donating to the ICBL under the CFC campaign.
Your money will help the ICBL to:
- Encourage governments to finance and implement victim assistance and demining
- Encourage and supports survivors to participate in national campaigning and international diplomatic processes
- Train and provides technical and financial support to campaigners in mine- and cluster munitions-affected countries, to ensure the voice of local civil society is heard directly by decision-makers
- Feed information to governments, practitioners in the field, decision-makers and the media to keep the spotlight on the mines and cluster munitions problem
- Monitor the international response to the global landmine and explosive remnants of war problem through Landmine Monitor. This provides solid evidence to back our campaigning activities.
