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(30/11/2010, last updated: 02/12/2010) Read more » ( English )
Development programs often address health systems, governance systems and local authorities, education and work or employment. In all these areas, landmine survivors have the right to be part of the development of their countries, making contributions in the implementation and as beneficiaries of these programs. Additionally, the inclusion of survivors helps to ensure that, as systems are designed and progress, they are being adjusted in ways that are accessible to all persons with disabilities, including landmine survivors.
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In the latest issue of the ICBL newsletter, read about Keeping Up the Energy to reach the goal of a mine-free world, the ICBL expectations for the 10th Meeting of the States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty, the latest Landmine Monitor findings, the CMC-ICBL transition, victim assistance in international development, campaign news from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, DR Congo, Germany, Iraq, Mauritania, Nepal, Pakistan, Sudan, Turkey, Yemen, as well as East and Central Africa.
Geneva, 24 November 2010 - Record-breaking progress in implementing the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty was made in 2009. Use and production of the weapon, as well as casualty rates, were the lowest on record, while more contaminated land was cleared than ever before according to Landmine Monitor 2010, released today at the United Nations. In 2009, 3,956 new landmine and explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties were recorded, the lowest number for any year since the Monitor began reporting in 1999.
Landmines claim victims around the globe every day and continue to threaten civilians long after the end of conflicts. An antivehicle mine explosion that killed 13 Cambodian civilians on 16 November comes as a cruel reminder of the need to accelerate life-saving mine clearance work in all contaminated areas.
(Vientiane, 12 November 2010) - Governments agreed today on a 66-point action plan to turn legal obligations in the cluster bomb treaty into concrete actions. The Vientiane Declaration and Action Plan issued at the First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions set unprecedented new standards by which all governments will be judged, the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) said today at the conclusion of the meeting, which was held in Lao PDR, a country heavily contaminated by cluster bombs.
The international organization Peace and Sport, under the patronage of Prince Albert II of Monaco, has announced the nominees for the 2010 Sports Event for Peace award. The wheelchair rugby match Rumble in Cartagena that was the talk of the town at the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World is shortlisted along with only two other events. "By harnessing the power of athletes with disabilities, the event demonstrated that ability can replace adversity and triumph can overcome tragedy," said Juan Pablo Salazar from Fundación Arcangeles, co-organizer of the event.
Vientiane, Lao PDR, 9 November 2010 -- Governments have no time to waste to turn the promises of the new international treaty banning cluster munitions into concrete, live-saving actions, said the Cluster Munition Coalition today. The treaty's historic First Meeting of States Parties is being held from 9-12 November in Lao PDR. This is a defining moment in the life of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, the most significant disarmament treaty in over a decade. The Convention bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions and requires the destruction of stockpiles, clearance of cluster munition remnants from affected land and the provision of assistance to victims and affected communities.
Taking place in Geneva from 29 November - 3 December 2010, the Tenth Meeting of the States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty will review progress made since the landmark 2009 Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World.
Speaking notes for Tamar Gabelnick, ICBL Treaty Implementation Director, at the 2 November press briefing announcing the Tenth Meeting of the States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty to be held in Geneva from 29 November - 3 December 2010.
Bangkok, 1 November 2010 – The destruction of millions of stockpiled cluster submunitions years before deadlines mandated under the Convention on Cluster Munitions—a legally-binding treaty banning the weapon which entered into force on 1 August 2010—shows the treaty’s effectiveness in saving civilian lives, according to Cluster Munition Monitor 2010, a report released today. “There is real momentum behind the ban on cluster munitions,” said Steve Goose of Human Rights Watch, Cluster Munition Monitor’s Final Editor.