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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.
So You Want to Advocate for Victim Assistance?, Advocacy Booklet, First Edition, November 2008 (PDF)
ICBL campaigners joined the Third Continental Conference of African Experts on Landmines in Pretoria, South Africa from 9-11 September 2009, to conduct advocacy and outreach in support of the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The Continental Conference was the fourth in a series of regional meetings convened in the lead-up to the Cartagena Summit (Second Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty), which will take place in Colombia in the week of 30 November 2009.
States of South-Eastern Europe and the Caucasus still have large steps to take on the road to becoming 'mine-free', said the Nobel Peace Laureate International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) on the opening of a regional meeting on landmines in Tirana, Albania, on 7 October 2009.
The Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World will be a highly significant event in the history of the Mine Ban Treaty. It will provide an opportunity to revitalize and reinvigorate our work on the treaty, and to recommit ourselves to the road ahead. The ICBL calls on states to Come, Share, Commit and Care!
Pretoria, 9 September 2009 - African Union members must step up their efforts towards ridding the continent of landmines and fully respecting the rights of landmine survivors, said the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, today at the opening of a regional meeting on the issue. The Third Continental Conference of African Experts on Landmines (9-11 September) brings together all AU members, international organizations involved in mine action, and African ICBL activists.
Geneva and Brussels, 2 September 2009 -- A groundbreaking new report on “Voices from the Ground” shows that, despite progress in stockpile destruction and landmine clearance, governments around the world are not living up to their promises to treat and reintegrate landmine survivors into society. Ten years after the Mine Ban Treaty entered into force, 67% of survivors feel that their needs have not been taken into account by national victim assistance plans.
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