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The ICBL Advocacy Director travelled to Warsaw, Poland at the end of November as part of an advocacy mission and to participate in “Landmine Awareness Days” organized by the Polish Red Cross.
A briefing by civil society campaigners on the Mine Ban Treaty, held on 22 November 2006 at the Indonesian parliament was well received and led to hopes that ratification will happen before the end of the year.
On 22 November 2006, in Dakar, Senegal, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), in collaboration with its representative in Senegal, Boubine Touré, organized a workshop on the implementation of the Mine Ban Treaty in Senegal.
28 November 2006. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) expresses grave concern over reports from the United Nations that Israeli armed forces used antipersonnel mines during the recent conflict in Lebanon.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, in collaboration with the National Commission on Mine Ban Treaty Implementation, organized on 22 November 2006 in Dakar a workshop that gathered all the actors involved in the implementation of the Mine Ban Treaty in Senegal.
In the run up to the 9th anniversary of Poland's signature of the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997, the Polish Red Cross is organizing a series of landmine awareness days with the aim to mobilise public opinion and generate political pressure to urge the authorities to ratify the treaty.
On 23 October 2006, Montenegro deposited its instrument of succession to the Mine Ban Treaty, thus becoming the 152nd State Party to the treaty.
The ICBL welcomes the announcement made yesterday by Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre that Norway is ready to facilitate a process to negotiate an international ban on cluster munitions that cause unacceptable humanitarian harm.
Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons came into force on 12 November 2006.
Colombian armed opposition group ELN recently agreed to undertake humanitarian demining in the heavily affected department of Nariño, as a result of an agreement facilitated by NGO Geneva Call.
Survivors of minefields on the borders between Greece and Turkey got a chance to get their stories heard through two days of morning programming on private TV channel Mega. After the show, a group of survivors will be received by the Minister of Health and Deputy Minister of Defence.
On 6 November 2006 Human Rights Watch addressed the 8th Conference of States Parties to CCW Amended Protocol II. Read the statement here.
Geneva, 6 November 2006 - ICBL member Human Rights Watch addressed the 8th Annual Conference of States Parties to CCW Amended Protocol II which establishes prohibitions or restrictions on the use of mines, booby-traps and other devices. Many States not Party to the Mine Ban Treaty have often expressed the opinion that the Amended Protocol II deals adequately with antipersonnel mines. As outlined in the statement by Human Right Watch, the ICBL does not believe that this is the case.
On 1 November 2006, Landmine Monitor 2006 and the Chinese language version of the 2006 Taiwan Landmine Monitor chapter were released in a press conference held at the Legislative Yuan (national legislature) in Taipei, Taiwan
The ICBL attended the 8th General Assembly of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organizations (UNPO) meeting, in Taipei, Taiwan 27-29 October 2006.