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The ICBL is looking for a communications officer to ensure the implementation of the ICBL’s media and communications strategies as tools to promote the Campaign’s goals on landmines and cluster munitions. Candidates must have at least three years relevant experience in a media relations / communications/ campaigning environment, as well as strong demonstrated oral and written communications skills. Due to the nature of the job, a level of English equivalent to native language is required. This is a 12-month contract, renewable. Deadline for applications: 17 February 2008.
New Zealand hosts pivotal conference in global push for cluster bomb ban treaty (Wellington 18-22 February).
Steven Olejas, former head of the Mine Action Department at Danish Church Aid (DCA), then Chief Technical Advisor for UNDP in Algeria, was among the victims of the explosion of the UN building yesterday in Algiers.
Vienna, Austria, 7 December 2007 - The third major international conference on cluster munitions ended successfully today as consensus emerged on a number of important issues to be included in the new ban treaty to be signed in 2008, including victim assistance, clearance, stockpile destruction and international cooperation and assistance. Important work remains to ensure that exceptions do not weaken a comprehensive ban.
The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) has declared that it will not use antipersonnel landmines, Swiss-based NGO Geneva Call announced in a press release on 5 December 2007.
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Welcome to the November 2007 issue of ICBL news!
Contents include an editorial by Nobel Laureate Jody Williams; articles on: universalization of the Mine Ban Treaty in the Middle East and North Africa, Handicap International's programme of survivor advocates for a ban on cluster munitions, engaging non-state armed groups in Kashmir, and the latest issue of Landmine Monitor Report; as well as reports from activities and news in brief.
The Mine Ban Treaty was signed in Ottawa, Canada, on 3 December 1997 largely as a result of civil society pressure and mobilization under the umbrella of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). The ICBL was awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with its then coordinator Ms Jody Williams for its role in achieving the treaty.
Ten years on, civil society activists, mine action operators and landmine survivors are still hard at work to ensure that the whole world abides by the mine ban and that the words of the treaty become reality for mine affected communities and individuals.