States Parties 156 States Not Party 39
Signatories 104 Non-Signatories 91
The full report from the workshop on victim assistance held on the eve of the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World, is now available online.
Can the Convention on Cluster Munitions really improve the lives of the victims? Which countries are not living up to their promises to help survivors? What steps have already been taken to ensure the destruction of the hundreds of millions of stockpiled cluster submunitions? As we get close to the entry-into-force of the new Convention on Cluster Munitions, four organizations are coming together to address some of the many questions that arise. A press briefing will be held on 12 February in Brussels.
So You Want to Advocate for Victim Assistance?, Advocacy Booklet, Second Edition, November 2009
Cartagena, Colombia, 4 December 2009 -- Over 1000 activists, survivors and government delegates celebrated the close of the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World with the announcement that four new countries - Albania, Greece, Rwanda and Zambia - are now mine-free. The Summit closed with more than 120 governments adopting the Cartagena Action Plan, a detailed five-year plan of commitments on all areas of mine action including victim assistance, mine clearance, risk education, stockpile destruction and international cooperation.
Support three key treaties on International Day of Persons with DisabilitiesCartagena, 2 December 2009 -- High-level representatives from 130 countries attending the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World should redouble efforts to rid the world of antipersonnel landmines and cluster bombs, as well as pledge their support to assisting victims and upholding disability rights, a global group of disarmament, humanitarian and human rights organisations said today, marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December.
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.
Geneva, 12 November 2009 – Since the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty entered into force ten years ago, significant progress has been made in eradicating antipersonnel mines, but much work remains, according to Landmine Monitor Report 2009: Toward a Mine-Free World, a report by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines being released today at the United Nations.
Landmine Monitor Report 2009 will be released globally at a press conference hosted by the UN Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the eleventh annual report published by the ICBL, and reports on ban policy, demining, casualties, risk education, victim assistance, and support for mine action in every country in the world. It also includes a special ten-year review of progress since the entry into force of the Mine Ban Treaty in 1999.
The Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World is a milestone event where states and the mine ban community will review the status of the Mine Ban Treaty and set out steps that need to be taken to create a mine-free world. It will bring together more than 1,000 participants from across the world, including ministers and heads of states. ICBL campaigners, mine action experts and mine survivors from some 50 countries will participate and can provide interviews on landmines in all geographical regions, on mine clearance, victim assistance, mine risk education, and stories of survival.
From 7-9 October 2009, members of the ICBL gathered in Tirana, Albania for the Tirana Workshop on Achieving a Mine-Free South-Eastern Europe, to conduct advocacy and outreach in support of the Mine Ban Treaty as well as the Convention on Cluster Munitions. This was the last of a series of regional meetings convened in the lead-up to the Cartagena Summit
On 18 October 2009, mine survivors, campaigners and non-governmental organizations gathered in Diyarbakýr, Southeastern Turkey, to review progress and challenges since the Mine Ban Treaty entered into force for Turkey in 2004. This meeting was the first of its kind to be held in mine-affected Eastern Turkey.
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