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Victim Assistance and Socio-Economic Reintegration

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For the Nairobi Summit, ICBL will work to ensure States Parties:

  1. Present the status of development or implementation of their plan of action to address the needs and rights of mine survivors using specific actions and quantifiable objectives.
  2. Put in place adequate and effective data collection systems.
  3. Improve emergency and continuing medical care for survivors.
  4. Allow mine survivors and other persons with disability expanded access to sustainable rehabilitation programs.
  5. Facilitate access to vocation training and opportunities for income generation for survivors and other persons with disability.
  6. Work to adopt and/or fully implement disability legislation
  7. Institutionalize participation of landmine survivors in the work of the Convention (i.e. intersessional work, Meetings of States Parties, national planning, etc.).

Below is a list of 20 mine affected countries which were identified by the SC on VA as the most “victim assistance needy” countries.

  • AFRICA - Angola, Burundi, Chad, DR Congo, Eritrea, Mozambique, Senegal, Sudan and Uganda
  • AMERICAS - Colombia and Nicaragua
  • ASIA - Afghanistan, Cambodia and Thailand
  • EUROPE - Albania, Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia
  • CIS - Tajikistan
  • MENA - Yemen

Message:

I) For mine-affected states, encourage the government:

  1. To elaborate national planning for victim assistance, including survivors as a resourc
  2. To set up a national disability coordination body if it hasn't done so already
  3. To assure victim assistance to ALL landmine survivors within state boundaries
  4. To set up a National Mine Information System that provides among others:
    1. Focal point for VA in the country
    2. Location of existing orthopaedic centres.- are mine-affected areas covered?
    3. Information as to the reach and quality of services for landmine survivors--are they of good quality and free or low cost to survivors?
  5. To use Form J to report on victim assistance
  6. To address the issue of compensation for landmine survivors
  7. To support and participate in the process toward a new UN Convention on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities.

II) For donor States, encourage your government to:

  • Earmark part of all mine action funding for victim assistance. (An excellent example is Norway, which earmarks 25% for victim assistance.)
  • Fund a range of VA activities based on the national priorities for people with disabilities, among which landmine survivors will be included.
  • Urge mine-affected countries, where they provide assistance, to include landmine victim assistance programmes in their national development and health plans and priorities.
  • Support the human rights for people with Disability Convention process currently underway within the UN system.

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