Landmine Monitor Report 2004 - Release Events

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SUMMARY

On Wednesday 17 November the major, global findings of Landmine Monitor Report 2004 will be released according to theme in Phnom Penh, Maputo, and Brussels. On and after 18 November, campaigners are planning events and publicity activities in cities including Baku, Bangkok, Barcelona, Bogotá, Cairo, Damascus, Dhaka, Geneva, Hargeisa, Istanbul, Kabul, Lilongwe, Nairobi, New Delhi, Oslo, Ottawa,Paris, Rome, Skopje, Tokyo, Vientiane, Wellington, and Yogyakarta. In addition, campaigners plan to issue press releases and do media calls to release the 2004 report in several countries including Austria, Brazil, and Bulgaria.

The report is embargoed until 18 November, with the exception of the three thematic launch locations, which will do television and radio. Any print stories are embargoed until 18 November. For more information, to amend an event listing or to inform us of a release event not listed, please email lm@icbl.org or contact Mary Wareham, HRW.

Good Luck!

Launch of Thematic Findings - Wednesday 17 November

CAMBODIA: Landmine Casualties and Victim Assistance

• NB! corrected time: [GMT 00:30] 7:30 local time at Banteay Prieb (Center of the Dove) in Kandal, just outside Phnom Penh.
• Speakers: King Norodom Sihamoni, ICBL Ambassador Tun Channareth, and Landmine Monitor’s Victim Assistance Research Coordinator, Sheree Bailey of Handicap International, and representatives of the Cambodia Campaign to Ban Landmines.
• Contact. Mr.Ny Nhar, CCBL, Tel. 855 (23) 880-139 and 855 (012) 693-823.Email. jrscam@forum.org.kh
• More information on this webpage: www.icbl.org/news/cambodia_lm_2004

MOZAMBIQUE: Landmine Problem and Mine Action

• [GMT 8:00] 10:00 local time at the Franco Mozambican Cultural Centre in Maputo.
• Speakers: Landmine Monitor’s Mine Action Research Coordinator, Sara Sekkenes of Norwegian People's Aid, ICBL Intersessional Programme Officer, Susan Walker, and Landmine Monitor’s Africa Research Coordinator, Marielle Hallez.
• Contact: Ms. Sara Sekkenes, NPA, Tel. 258 (1) 485 324/5 or (82) 326-443, Email. sara.sekkenes@npaid.org

BELGIUM: Landmine Use, Production, Stockpiling, Trade and Policy

• [GMT 13:00] 14:00 local time at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
• Speakers: Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, Landmine Monitor’s Ban Policy Research Coordinator, Stephen Goose of Human Rights Watch, and Stan Brabant, Handicap International.
• Contact: Ms. Annelies Vanoppen, HI, Tel. 32 (2) 286-50-38, Email. annelies.vanoppen@handicap.be

Country and Other Release Events

CYBERSPACE: Online report release

• GMT 00:01 online at www.icbl.org/lm/2004
• Release of the full report including the full 1,315-page report in word and PDF format (searchable by country and linked to previous years’ reports) and its executive summary.
• Contact. Mr. Kjell Knudsen, ICBL Webmaster, webmaster@icbl.org

AFGHANISTAN - 21 November

• [GMT 9:30] 14:00local time at the headquarters of the Mine Detection and Dog Centre in Kabul.
• Speakers: Representatives of the Afghan government, campaign to ban landmines, and demining groups.
• Contact. Sebastian Fouquet, Tel. 93 (79) 56-67-34 or (702) 906-40, hibafghadp@yahoo.fr

AZERBAIJAN - 18 November

• TIME? at International Press Center in Baku.
• Contact. Hafiz Safikhanov, Azerbaijan Campaign to Ban Landmines, Tel. 994 (12) 94 14 58, Email. azerbaijan@icbl.org

BANGLADESH – 18 November

• TIME & LOCATION??? in Dhaka.
• Speakers: Landmine Monitor’s Bangladesh researcher Non-Violence International Bangladesh.
• Contact. Mr. Rafique Al Islam, NVI, Tel: 880 (341) 64215/64809/64489. Email. mudita@gshakti.com

CANADA – 18 November

• [GMT 12:45] 07:45at National Press Club in Ottawa.
• Speakers: Landmine Monitor’s Americas research coordinator and Mines Action Canada.
• Contact. Ms. Nancy Ingram, MAC, Tel: (613) 241-3777, Email. nancy@minesactioncanada.org

COLOMBIA - 18 November

• [GMT ?] TIME& LOCATION? in Bogotá and 14 departments.
• Speakers: Representatives of the Campana Colombiana Contra Minas.
• Contact. Mr. Camilo Serna, Tel. 57 (1) 2174872, 57 (4) 2629742, Email. cccminas@cccminas.org.co

EGYPT – 20 November

• [GMT 13:00] 14:00local time at Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo.
• Speakers: Researchers from the region.
• Contact: Mr. Ayman Sorour, Protection, Tel. 20 (12) 32-39-033, Email. amac98eg@yahoo.com

FRANCE – 17 November

• [GMT ?] TIME &LOCATION? in Paris.
• Contact: Ms. Anne Villeneuve, Handicap International, Tel. 33 1 43 14 87 00, Email. avilleneuve@handicap-international.org

INDIA – 18-24 November

• Jaipoor state capital of Rajasthan (18 November), Srinagar state capital of Jammu & Kashmir (20 November 2004), New Delhi (24 November 2004)
• Contact. Dr. Balkrishna Kurvey, Indian Campaign to Ban Landmines, Tel. 91 (712) 2745806, Fax. 91 (712) 2743664 Email. iipdep_ngp@sancharnet.in

INDONESIA - 29 November

• [GMT] TIME & LOCATION? in Yogyakarta.

• Contact. Ingvild Solvang, Tel. 62 (274) 517 405, Email. solvang@jrs.or.id

ITALY – 18 November

• [GMT] 10.30 at the House of Deputies (Sala della Sacrestia, Palazzo Valdina, Vicolo Valdina 3/A) in Rome.
• Speakers TBC
• Contact. Ms. Simona Beltrami, Campagna Italiana Contro le Mine, Tel. +39 (6) 85-800-693, Email. coordinamento@campagnamine.org

JAPAN – 18 November

• [GMT 6:00]15:00 local time at JapanVolunteerCenter 2F, Conference Room in Tokyo.
• Speakers: Yasuhiro Kitagawa, Yukie Osa, Toshihiro Shimizu, Michiyo Kato.
• Contact. Masayo Maekawa, Japan Campaign to Ban Landmines, Tel: +81 (3) 3834-4340, Email. banmines@jca.apc.org

KENYA - 19 November

• [GMT 13:00] 15:00 at Grand Regency Hotel in Nairobi.
• Speakers: High Commissioner of Mozambique and Mereso Agina, Kenya Coalition Against Landmines.
• Contact. Mr. Cornelius Nyamboki, KCAL, Tel. +254 (20) 573-099 or (722) 705-860, Email. kcal@africaonline.co.ke

KENYA - 29 November

• [GMT 13:00] 14:00 in Room 1 at the United Nations Office in Nairobi.
• Speakers: Landmine Monitor Core Group/Thematic research coordinators.
• Contact. Ms. Mary Wareham or Sue Wixley, KCAL, Tel. +254 (735) 337-396, Email. media@icbl.org

LAOS – 18 November

• TIME & LOCATION? in Vientiane.
• Contact. Mr. Luc Delneuville, Tel. 85 (6) 21-41-21-10 or 21-31-20-14, direction@hilaos.org

MACEDONIA – 23 November

• [GMT 10:00] 11:00 local time at LOCATION? in Skopje. The “5 years of Mine Action in Macedonia” report will also be introduced in community meetings in the former crisis areas of Tetovo (MunicipalityBuilding, 11.00, 24 November), Kumanovo (Hotel Kristal, 11.00, 25 November) and Lipkovo (MunicipalityBuilding, 16.00, 25 November).

• Speakers: Xhabir Deralla, Chairman of Civil NGO; Ministry of Foreign Affairs representative; MOD Unit for Humanitarian Demining representatives; Darko Jordanov and Herbi Elmazi, ICRC.
• Contact. Hans Risser, Landmine Monitor Researcher, Tel: +389-70-828-692, Email: risserh@hotmail.com

MALAWI – 18 November

• [GMT 7:30] 09.30 at CHRR offices in Lilongwe
• Contact: Mr. UnduleMwakasungura, Malawi Campaign to Ban Landmine (MCBL), Tel. 265 (01) 761 122 and email. undule@sdnp.org.mw

NEW ZEALAND – 24 November

• [GMT 04:45] 17:45 at Rise Café in Wellington
• Speakers: Deborah Morris, Minister for Disarmament Marian Hobbs and demining expert Marty Donohue
• Contact: Geraldine Canham-Harvey, Tel. 64 (21) 150-3868, Email. g.canham@paradise.net.nz

NORWAY - 18 November

• [GMT 9:00] 10:00 at NPA HQ in Oslo
• Speakers: Head of NPA Mine Action Unit and NPA's Sudan operations adviser.
• Contact. Ms. Kristine Lindberg, Tel. 45 22 03 76 04 , Email kristine.lindberg@npaid.org

SOMALILAND – 19 November

• [GMT 16:00] 19:00 local time at Hotel Maan-Soor in Hargeisa.
• Speakers: Landmine Monitor’s Somali researcher Institute for Practical Research and Training and Pascal Bongard, Geneva Call.
• Contact: Ahmed H. Esa, IPRT, Tel. 3 6990 (STC) 528-629 (TELESOM) or 5 5785 (SOLTELCO), Email. ahesa@rocketmail.com

SPAIN – 23 November

• [GMT 16:30] 17:30 at the Caixaforum centre in Barcelona.
• Speakers: A political representative, Maria Josep Parès and Lídia Tovar, Moviment per la Pau.
• Contact. Ms. Maria Josep, Moviment per la Pau, Tel. +34 (93) 21-93-371, Email. movpau@pangea.org

SWITZERLAND – 18 November

• [GMT 13:00]14:00 in Conference Room XXIV at UN Palais des Nations in Geneva.
• Speakers: Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, and Stephen Goose, Human Rights Watch.
• Contact. Ms. Mary Wareham, HRW, Tel. 1 (202) 612-4356, Email. wareham@hrw.org

SYRIA– 18 November

• [GMT 9:00] 11:00 in Damascus
• Contact. Ghassan Shahrour, Coordinator, Arab Net for Research on LM & ERW, Tel. 963 (11) 94741955, email syria@icbl.org

THAILAND - 23 November

• Contact. Mr. Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, Nonviolence International Southeast Asia, Tel. +66-2-934-3289, Email. yeshua@nonviolenceinternational.net

TURKEY – 18 November

• LOCATION & TIME?
• Contact. Muteber Öðreten, Initative for a mine free-Turkey, Tel. 90 216 531 70 80, Email. Muteber2001@yahoo.com

ZAMBIA - 19 November

• 10:00 at the Zambian Mine Action Centre Offices in Lusaka.
• Speakers: Minister Mulele, ZMAC Director and Chairman of the Interministerial Committee of Landmines, Angolan and Zambian mine survivors.
• Contact: Dr. Bob Mtonga, +260-9784-2922, Email. bobmtonga@hotmail.com