Author/Origin: Becky Jordan jordan@icbl.org

(Thursday 24 June 2004 ) The Standing Committee on Victim Assistance and Socio-Economic Reintegration is co-chaired by Australia and Croatia. The co-rapporteurs are Nicaragua and Norway.

ICBL presentations

Becky Jordan, chair of ICBL Victim Assistance Working Group presented an overview of the status of implementation of the victim assistance provision in the Mine Ban Treaty.

Key discussions

19 mine-affected State Parties presented their priority needs in victim assistance. These presentations illustrated that the main principles and practices that the ICBL has been advocating for, have been incorporated at least in their rhetoric, by State Parties.

Quotes of the day

• “We might have lost a limb or eyesight but we have not lost my dignity,” Omar Alleibi, Syria.
• “The quality of the interventions [today] provide proof of the evolution in our thinking,” Peter Herby, International Committee of the Red Cross