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Our network includes human rights, humanitarian, children, peace, disability, veterans, medical, mine action, development, arms control, religious, environmental and women's groups. While our members carry their activities in a variety of ways, they regularly share political strategies, campaign activities, achievements and ideas on how to address challenges. This exchange of information among the different countries plus the hard work of the national campaigns to ban landmines have created and maintained the momentum of the ICBL.
This week we hear from Sulaiman Aminy, the fourth of our campaigners interviewed as part of ICBL’s 20th Anniversary celebrations. Sulaiman is Executive Director of ‘Afghan Landmine Survivors' Organization (ALSO) and also the victim assistance focal point for ICBL-CMC. He tells us of his work in a country affected by landmines and cluster munitions, and his hopes for Afghanistan to play a bigger role within the region, promoting the Mine Ban Treaty and Cluster Munition Convention.
Continuing our campaigner interviews as part of ICBL’s 20th Anniversary celebrations, we speak to Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, a veteran campaigner who has been involved with the campaign since 1994.
Yeshua covers research on Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa for the Ban Policy section of the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor of the ICBL-CMC. In this fascinating interview he tells us about his work in Myanmar (Burma), and his hopes for this heavily affected country.
In the second week of ICBL’s 20th Anniversary celebrations, we speak to Bekele Gonfa from Ethiopia, a country affected by landmines. Bekele is a Victim Assistance Focal Point and is Technical Advisor of a local NGO called YYGM which is currently implementing a Survivors Network Project (SNP) with a grant from the ICBL-CMC. He was Country Director for Landmine Survivors Network (later Survivor Corps) between 2003-2009. Bekele continues to work tirelessly to assist the rehabilitation of survivors, families and entire communities throughout Ethiopia.