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Cartagena, November 30th 2009 -- Over a thousand activists, survivors, mine action practitioners, development experts and government representatives from around the world will converge in Colombia this week for the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World, including dozens of high-level government representatives and dignitaries. The Cartagena Summit, running from November 29th-December 4th, is the second five-year Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty, and is aimed at evaluating progress made and identifying actions required to fully realize the vision of a mine-free world.
ICBL campaigners joined the Third Continental Conference of African Experts on Landmines in Pretoria, South Africa from 9-11 September 2009, to conduct advocacy and outreach in support of the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The Continental Conference was the fourth in a series of regional meetings convened in the lead-up to the Cartagena Summit (Second Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty), which will take place in Colombia in the week of 30 November 2009.
States of South-Eastern Europe and the Caucasus still have large steps to take on the road to becoming 'mine-free', said the Nobel Peace Laureate International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) on the opening of a regional meeting on landmines in Tirana, Albania, on 7 October 2009.
The Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World will be a highly significant event in the history of the Mine Ban Treaty. It will provide an opportunity to revitalize and reinvigorate our work on the treaty, and to recommit ourselves to the road ahead. The ICBL calls on states to Come, Share, Commit and Care!
Pretoria, 9 September 2009 - African Union members must step up their efforts towards ridding the continent of landmines and fully respecting the rights of landmine survivors, said the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, today at the opening of a regional meeting on the issue. The Third Continental Conference of African Experts on Landmines (9-11 September) brings together all AU members, international organizations involved in mine action, and African ICBL activists.
Geneva and Brussels, 2 September 2009 -- A groundbreaking new report on “Voices from the Ground” shows that, despite progress in stockpile destruction and landmine clearance, governments around the world are not living up to their promises to treat and reintegrate landmine survivors into society. Ten years after the Mine Ban Treaty entered into force, 67% of survivors feel that their needs have not been taken into account by national victim assistance plans.
In the second week of July, members of the ICBL gathered in Tajikistan for the Dushanbe Workshop on Achieving a Mine-Free Central Asia to conduct advocacy and outreach in support of the Mine Ban Treaty, as well as the Convention on Cluster Munitions. This was the third in a series of regional meetings convened in the lead-up to the Mine Ban Treaty's Second Review Conference, which will take place in Cartagena, Colombia in the week of 30 November 2009.
Dushanbe, 7 July 2009 -- Central Asian states should join the vast majority of the world in renouncing antipersonnel landmines once and for all, said the 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) today, at the opening of the Dushanbe Workshop on Achieving a Mine-Free Central Asia. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have yet to join the Mine Ban Treaty.
The Dushanbe Workshop is the third in a series of regional meetings convened in the lead-up to the Mine Ban Treaty's Second Review Conference. Government representatives from Central Asian states, states that financially or technically support mine action, UN agencies, international organizations as well as civil society campaigners are expected to attend. The workshop will focus on clearance of mined areas, victim assistance, cooperation in the region, as well as challenges for joining the Mine Ban Treaty.
The new international convention banning cluster bombs is already delivering results as signatories plan the destruction of these indiscriminate weapons even before it has entered into force, said the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC). On 25 and 26 June 2009, delegations from more than 80 countries will meet in the German capital to discuss plans for stockpile destruction. The event will allow experts to share knowledge and experience, and thus to provide signatories to the Convention on Cluster Munitions with guidance and broader information on the issue of cluster munitions’ destruction.
On 16-18 June 2009, ICBL Ambassador Margaret Arach Orech joined the Conference of Religious Leaders on Conventional Weapons: Small Arms and Landmines, in Nairobi, Kenya. She provided examples of specific actions religious leaders can take to facilitate the rehabilitation and inclusion of mine survivors into their communities.
GENEVA, Switzerland – 29 May 2009 – Several states that have signed the new international treaty prohibiting cluster munitions have already started to destroy their stockpiles of the weapon, even before the treaty formally takes effect, according to Banning Cluster Munitions: Government Policy and Practice, a 288-page report released today.
In the first week of April 2009, members of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) gathered in Bangkok, Thailand to conduct advocacy and outreach in support of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. This was the second in a series of regional meetings convened in the lead-up to the treaty’s Second Review Conference, which will take place in Cartagena, Colombia in the week of 30 November 2009.
We want to make the voices of survivors, their families and communities heard at the Second Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty in Cartagena, Colombia, from 30 Nov. - 4 Dec. 2009! A progress review entitled Voices from the Ground, will be published based on answers from mine survivors.
The ICBL welcomed today the recent destruction of 392 antipersonnel landmines by the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), in Koya, northern Iraq. The news was announced by Swiss-based NGO Geneva Call in a press release on 1 September 2008.
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