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Workshop in Sana’a to examine mine clearance, risk education and victim assistance
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On 18 and 19 January 2007, in Alger, Algeria, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) actively participated in a Victim Assistance Training Workshop organized by the Algerian Ministry of National Solidarity and Handicap International (HI) Algeria.
As negotiations between the Burma/Myanmar ruling authorities and ethnic armed opposition group Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) took place in Yangon, the Thailand Campaign to Ban Landmines urged both parties to include in their talks measures to alleviate the suffering caused by landmines.
Text of the letter sent to the President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, on 11 January.
The announcement, in late December 2006, that Pakistan was considering mining its border with Afghanistan, has sparked strong opposition worldwide. The ICBL has written to the Pakistani authorities urging them not to join the "club of shame" of mine users.
On 28 December 2006, Angola marked in a public ceremony the destruction and demilitarization of its known stock of antipersonnel landmines, thus meeting its 1 January 2007 deadline under Article 4 of the Mine Ban Treaty.
The ICBL condemns the continued use of mine warfare in Burma/Myanmar, as most recently revealed in a 20 December Press Release by Human Rights Watch.
ICBL is looking for an Advocacy and Campaigning Officer
The ICBL is proposing a new position to support ICBL national campaigns to integrate and implement advocacy on cluster munitions into their national plans and to enhance activities on implementation of the Mine Ban Treaty. This is a 12 month position from January through December 2007, with the possibility of extension. At the end of 2006, the ICBL made the decision to engage the Campaign on the cluster munition issue.
Landmine Monitor Report research coordinator on Non-State Armed Groups, Yeshua Moser- Puangsuwan who recently travelled to Kashmir, describes here the impact of landmines on the lives of civilians in the Kashmiri village of Warsun, on the Indian side of the Line of Control.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) welcomed today the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the text of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention comprises 50 articles plus one additional protocol, and was largely influenced by the input of civil society organizations under the umbrella of the International Disability Caucus.
The new issue of ICBL News is now on-line with articles on the Ottawa process now entering its tenth year, the aftermath of war in Lebanon, the new Disability Rights Convention, the slump in mine action funding in 2005, news and updates from the ICBL.
The Indonesian parliament approved the bill on ratification of the Mine Ban Treaty on 7 December 2006. The next step is to promote a mine free world says Indonesian Campaign to Ban Landmines
Indonesia, one of the last three countries to have signed the Mine Ban Treaty without ratifying it, is set to become a State Party to the Treaty soon. Parliament approved the ratification bill on 7 December and sent it to the President for final approval.