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A workshop jointly organized by the ICBL and the Tajikistan Mine Action Center on 30 March 2007 showed that shortfalls in international assistance to Tajikistan were threatening mine action and victim assistance programs with strong potential for success. On 4 April, the second United Nations Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance, the two organizations issued a strong call for increased support for these programs.
On 30 March 2007, at the UN Headquarters in New York 81 countries and the European Community signed the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
On International Women's Day the Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines launches a global survey to explore the significance of gender in mine impact and mine action effectiveness.
The ICBL welcomes the latest destruction by the Polisario Front of some of its remaining arsenal of antipersonnel landmines, and encourages Polisario to make a voluntary public accounting of its remaining mine stocks and a schedule for their destruction.
On 12 February, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines participated in a symposium organized by the Austrian government in Vienna entitled, “Assisting Landmine Survivors: A Decade of Efforts.” The meeting was the first in a series of events to mark the 10th anniversary of the year in which the Mine Ban Treaty was negotiated and signed.
Workshop in Sana’a to examine mine clearance, risk education and victim assistance
On 18 and 19 January 2007, in Alger, Algeria, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) actively participated in a Victim Assistance Training Workshop organized by the Algerian Ministry of National Solidarity and Handicap International (HI) Algeria.
On 28 December 2006, Angola marked in a public ceremony the destruction and demilitarization of its known stock of antipersonnel landmines, thus meeting its 1 January 2007 deadline under Article 4 of the Mine Ban Treaty.
Mine Ban Treaty Turns 7: Global Successes Tempered by Ongoing Use and ProductionBig Challenges Looming on Mine Clearance Deadlines and Assistance to Mine Survivors
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