10th Anniversary

This new section of the website contains campaigning materials available to ICBL members to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty.

In this 10th anniversary year, the ICBL is calling the treaty a “success in progress”. There have been undeniable advances. Over three-quarters of the states in the world are party to it, and States Parties have been compelled to demine and return to productive use large tracts of land, educate mine-affected communities about the dangers of antipersonnel mines, provide support to and protect the rights of landmine victims, and destroy millions of stockpiled antipersonnel mines, ensuring they can never be planted in the earth again. None of this would have occurred without a powerful, comprehensive treaty guiding states’ way. On the other hand, the success of the treaty is by no means assured. Many challenges remain, and we cannot afford to rest yet.

As Stein Tønnesson, political historian from the International Peace Research Institute said, speaking at a 10th anniversary event in Oslo on 18 September 2007: “ Today the best way to celebrate our victory then years ago is not just to toast and congratulate each other, but look ahead at remaining and new challenges”. The materials contained in this section are intended to help us turn the celebrations into renewed activities to complete the task set by the treaty: achieving a world free of antipersonnel mines and the suffering they cause.

This section contains:

• visual resources with photo exhibitions and logos;
• campaigning materials including fact sheets, brochures and speeches,
• events section listing all the past and upcoming events related to this anniversary, as well as relevant reports.

All resources posted on the site are already available for campaigners to use and to print. If you are interested in print some of them in higher resolution, translate into another language, or have technical questions please contact icbl@icbl.org.

If you have any anniversary-related materials which you wish to share with other campaigners please send them to icbl@icbl.org and we will make them available on the site.

The ICBL Staff