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Presentation made by ICBL Diplomatic Advisor, Ambassador Satnam Singh, at the Regional Meeting on "Mine Action and Implications for Peace and Development" - Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 12 March 2007
Opening remarks by Simona Beltrami, Advocacy Director, International Campaign to Ban Landmines
ICBL members actively participated in a regional meeting on Mine Action and Implications for Peace and Development held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 12 to 14 March 2007.
On the eve of the first regional forum on cluster munitions in Southeast Asia - where these weapons were used extensively decades ago and continue to claim victims to this day - Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Sok An, announced Cambodia's support for a ban on cluster munitions.
On International Women's Day the Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines launches a global survey to explore the significance of gender in mine impact and mine action effectiveness.
The ICBL welcomes the latest destruction by the Polisario Front of some of its remaining arsenal of antipersonnel landmines, and encourages Polisario to make a voluntary public accounting of its remaining mine stocks and a schedule for their destruction.
The Intersessional Standing Committee Meetings took place from 23-27 April 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Eight years after its entry into force on 1 March 1999, the Mine Ban Treaty has emphatically made a difference to the lives of individuals and communities in mine affected areas, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) said today.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is looking for a full time Campaign Intern for its Geneva office. The internship will last approximately six months from April to September 2007 with start and end dates negotiable.
A historic process to develop, negotiate and conclude a new treaty prohibiting cluster munitions that have unacceptable consequences for civilians was launched at a successful conference hosted by the Norwegian Foreign Minister in Oslo at a meeting of 49 states, the Cluster Munition Coalition said today.
On 12 February, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines participated in a symposium organized by the Austrian government in Vienna entitled, “Assisting Landmine Survivors: A Decade of Efforts.” The meeting was the first in a series of events to mark the 10th anniversary of the year in which the Mine Ban Treaty was negotiated and signed.
On 20 February 2007, the Republic of Indonesia deposited its instrument of ratification to the United Nations, thus becoming the 153rd State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. Indonesia was one of the original signatories of the Mine Ban Treaty in 1997.
A clear commitment to develop, negotiate and conclude a new treaty by 2008 must emerge from the government meeting on cluster munitions in Norway this week, the Cluster Munition Coalition said today.
Ten years after the Nobel Prize winning campaign to ban landmines, some 40 governments and as many civil society organisations will meet in Oslo to launch an international process to ban cluster bombs that cause unacceptable humanitarian consequences. These preventable, predictable and unacceptable consequences have been increasingly brought to light by recent conflicts including in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
The journey began on 10 December 2006 when three Colombians left Bogotá to bicycle to Ushuaia in Argentina, in a bid to support the Colombian Campaign to Ban Landmines and to draw international attention to their country’s extensive landmine problem.