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In both August and September 2011, more elephants injured by landmines in Myanmar/Burma arrived for treatment in Thailand.Pa Hae Po , a male elephant, was the 14th elephant mine victim admitted for care at the the Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE) hospital in northern Thailand in mid-September. He lost a part of his left front foot to a landmine planted in the jungle on the Burma-Thai border.
A regional seminar on “Addressing the Human Costs of Anti-personnel Landmines” took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 20-21 September 2011. The meeting was organized by the Royal Government of Cambodia, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). At the meeting, Mr. Chan Neang who is a member of the Cambodian Campaign to Ban Landmines and a landmine survivor delivered the following statement:
ICBL Ambassador Tun Channareth (called Reth) received an honorary degree from Seattle University on 12 June 2011 for his fourteen years of campaigning against landmines.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), www.icbl.org, and the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), www.stopclustermunitions.org, are launching ‘Investing in Action’, a local campaign support project that will provide organisations that are members of the ICBL-CMC with funding for campaign activities.
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced on 15 March 2011 that ICBL member Handicap International will receive the 2011 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize of US$1.5 million. A co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in the early nineties, Handicap International is the world's largest non-governmental organization providing assistance and advocacy for people with disabilities.
The ANZCMC is greatly saddened by the death of Pacific campaigner Andonia Sema Piau-Lynch. Andy passed away peacefully on Saturday, 29 January 2011 in Port Vila, Vanuatu after a painful battle with cancer. In addition to her crucial work advancing the rights of persons with disabilities and women in Vanuatu and across the Pacific, Andy made important contributions to the ICBL and Cluster Munition Coalition.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Cluster Munition Coalition are devastated by the loss of our dear colleague and friend Rachid Dahmani from Handicap International in Algeria. A compassionate and dedicated campaigner, Rachid promoted the rights of landmine and cluster munition survivors and other persons with disabilities in Algeria, and passed on advocacy knowledge to new activists.
The Association of Ethical Shareholders (Germany) awarded the prize on 13 September 2010 to Mr Küchenmeister and Action Group Landmine.de, in recognition for their outstanding campaign for a ban on landmines and cluster munitions and for the rights of victims of unexploded ordnance.
The Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor encourages ICBL campaigners and researchers to organize activities to mark the release of Monitor reports in November 2010. Campaigners can carry a range of activities such as press conferences; meetings to present government officials with report findings; panel discussions or debates open to the media and public; art, music, photography or cultural shows or exhibits.
In this special issue of the ICBL newsletter, mine action experts, victim assistance practitioners and campaigners explore the new opportunities offered by the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. They also look at how the lessons learned in over 10 years of implementation of the Mine Ban Treaty, as well as all the structures and expertise already in place, could benefit the full and swift implementation of these younger conventions.
On 1 August 2010, a conference organized by the Afghan Landmine Survivors' Organization, brought together over 100 mine survivors, representatives from disability organizations, government officials and donor organizations. It produced concrete recommendations to help and encourage the government of Afghanistan to promote physical rehabilitation and peer support.
Taking place in Vientiane, Laos from 8-12 November, the Youth Leaders Forum aims at building the capacity of 18 - 30 years old who are active in the campaigns to ban landmines and/or cluster munitions. It will include sessions on lobbying, fundraising, media relations, and volunteer management.
Secretary-General of Control Arms Foundation of India, Ms Nepram will receive the International Peace Bureau's Sean MacBride Peace Prize 2010, in recognition of her extraordinary efforts to promote linkages between disarmament and development an to end gun violence in India.
In the latest edition of the ICBL newsletter, read about Central America becoming the world's first mine-free region, the U.S. landmine policy review moving forward, ICBL concerns about Mine Ban Treaty implementation, victim assistance in action, the Monitor launching its country profiles webpage, as well as campaign news from Turkey, Georgia, Senegal, Nepal, Iraq and Uganda.
The March 2010 edition of the ICBL newsletter is available online! Read about the ICBL reaching its goals at the Cartagena Summit, the USCBL urging the U.S. to join the Mine Ban Treaty, the new Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, as well as campaign news from China, D.R. Congo, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Philippines and Sri Lanka.
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