Landmine Monitor Meetings in Dublin - Work Plans
Landmine Monitor Meeting in Dublin - Work Plans -
DATE: 28 September
WORK PLAN
Landmine Monitor - First Annual Report
28 September 1998 - Mailout to ICBL and other research sources.
Comments welcome on possible researchers (Wareham)
Include:
1. Narrative introducing the table of contents and production
schedule.
2. Booklet introducing the Landmine Monitor initiative.
3. Research Grant application - deadline by 15 October 1998. Mailout
hardcopy but also by fax and email.
4. Research Methods & Standards: Steve Goose, HRW, to write up short
guide to research methods and standards within the week (by 25
September) based on roundtable and training session
5. Revised Tables initially prepared by Valerie Warmington, MAC/MAG.
(Paul Hannon, MAC, to use as basis for the Database.)
6. Questions to accompany tables indicating desired contents of
country reports.
7. Technical Advisors (to be identified)
15 October 1998 - Deadline for Submission of Research Grants:
Return application to Wareham by this date. The grants will either be
small (approx. $2000.00) or large (approx. $5000.00) for either a
country or cluster of countries. Distribution to regional coo
inators for discussion and decision in Brussels. The grant will be
paid in two installments, one at the beginning of the research
project and the other upon completio
25-26 October 1998 - Brussels meeting of the Core Group (Contact
Point: Anne Capelle, HI)
* Decision on Research Grants.
* Discussion on Elements of Database.
1 November 1998 - Research Grants Decision. Announcement made in a
letter from the Core Group: hard copy mailed, faxed and emailed
ou
November 1998 - Malawi Meeting. (first week) Look at country campaign
reports. To be followed by Africa Topics/Center for Defense Studies
production of research handbook for Africa. (Contact points
Undule Mwakasungura, Martin Rupia, Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng)
1-2 December 1998: Ottawa Meeting (approx. 75 participants, 2 days.
Contact point: Paul Hannon, MAC)
* Researchers present initial findings or data. We need detailed
outlines at the very minimum.
* First installment of research grant is paid here in Ottawa.
* Demonstration of Landmine Monitor Database housed by Mines Action
Canada.
December -Nepal National Workshop. Landmine Monitor discussion.
(Contact point: Purna Shova Chitrakar, Nepal CBL)
9-10 February 1999 - Regional Workshop on the Menace of Landmines in
the Middle East in Lebanon (Contact point: Habbouba Aoun, Landmine
Resource Cente
Early February 1999 - Deadline for draft papers to the Landmine
Monitor Core Group for review and comment.
1 March 1999 - ENTRY INTO FORCE.
Mid-March 1999 - Oslo, Norway: Third Landmine Monitor Meeting
(approx. 50 participants, 2-3 days, Contact Point: Christian Ruge,
NP
20-22 March - (Bangladesh) Regional Conference on South Asia.
(Contact points: Faiz Fayyaz, Pakistan Campaign to Ban Landmines and
M.W. Faruque, Bangladesh Campaign to Ban Landmines
April 1999 - Final Editing, Fact-Checking of Annual Report
May/June 1999 - Printing & Distribution of Annual Report. Executive
Summary Translation.
May/June 1999 - First Meeting of States Parties
Sleep!
LANDMINE MONITOR: CORE GROUP RESPONSIBILITIES
Mailing address for Landmine Monitor. Human Rights Watch, care of
Mary Wareham.
Database including charts and graphs for Annual Report. Mines Action
Canada, care of Paul Hannon.
Regional Coordinators:
Africa - Kenyan Coalition Against Landmines (Mereso Agina)
Americas - Mines Action Canada (Paul Hannon)
Asia-Pacific - Handicap International (Anne Capelle)
Central Asia - Human Rights Watch/ Norwegian People Aid's
Europe - Norwegian People Aid's (Christian Ruge)
Middle East - Human Rights Watch (Mary Wareham)
Thematic Coordinators:
Mine Action: Victim/Survivor Assistance - Handicap International
(Anne Capelle)
Mine Action: Demining /Mine Awareness- Norwegian People Aid's (Per
Nergaard
Miscellaneous: Mines Action Canada (Paul Hannon)
Banning Antipersonnel Mines - Human Rights Watch (Mary
Wareham)
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AMERICAS GROUP WORKPLAN
Landmine Monitor Meeting
Dublin, Ireland
September 1998
Commitments
We agreed that every campaign should be a clearing house for
information on their country. In addition the participants made the
following commitment
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
- commitment to work on developing the survey tools
- undertake discussions with WHO about adding landmine questions to
existing or planned surveys
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
- will get information from US on the level of demining in
Guantanamo
COLOMBIA CAMPAIGN
-try to obtain information on Cuban demining via Embassy in
Havana
- together with UK Campaign try to update information on
Malvinas/Falkland Islands
- update on the Bolivia-Chile border situation
- can do research on Ecuador-Peru border situation
- together with VVAF, PHR and MAC explore possibilities of making
an evaluation of the multi-country demining programme in Central
Ameri
DASSUR
- agreed to gather information on Mexico. Acknowledged that may need
to coordinate this with other organizations and suggestions were made
on how that could occu
- in addition Claudio is interested in the environmental impact of
landmines and as a lawyer is willing to work on landmines issues from
the environmental law perspective. This is an offer more to
BL than to LM.
-will try to acquire information on landmines in Chiapas. PHR may be
able to assist this.
- collecting information on ratifications on Central America and
Caribbean
LANDMINE SURVIVORS NETWORK (LSN)
- committed to track commitments of money pledged compared to what is
spent on.
- Contribute outcomes and data form Global Level One Mine Survey
Programme
BRAZIL: Not confident they will be able to provide good information,
but are willing to cooperate with others.
Mines Action Canada (MAC)
- administer Landmine Monitor database
- attempt to acquire information on Cuban demining via Canadian
Embassy in Havana
- complete Canada country report
-
Human Rights Watch
- do research on global stockpile on production, stockpiling, trade
and use
Yale Law School Schell Center
- will do research on the ban treaty and customary international
humanitarian law
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EUROPE GROUP WORK PLAN
EUROPE resources for Annual Report ( in addition to country
reports)
Mines Advisory Group:
Data collection from the field on mine action
Research capabilities on : transfer, production, stockpiles, AHD`s
ATM's
Medico/Misereor
Research on
development of new types
Focus on european companies
Detection technologioes
Minelaying systems
New use: borders
Components
SPAS
Arms transfers and production
Swiss Campaign
Research on
Claymores
NSA's
Components
SIPRI
Forward material mon landmines, sharing of sources
Advising on issues.
HI
Data on victim assiststance and socio-economic impact
Follow up in countires mand areas where HI is present
Implementation
JRS
Keeping an eye on EU
Refugee information about new use
NPA
Data from field operations on mine action
Technical advice on mine action
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MIDDLE EAST WORK PLAN
To end of 1998:
EGYPT:
* Building a database of mine-affected areas of Egypt.
* Publishing a newsletter.
* Networking - want to hold a national workshop.
* About 25 NGOs meet regularly as a group.
* Dr Alaa Ghannam, Legal Research and Resource Center for Human
Rights, serves as the coordinator of this Egyptian NGO
grou
LEBANON:
* Continuing to survey of mine-affected areas and population.
Building a database.
SUDAN:
* Continuing their work on mine awareness, surveying of mine affected
areas and advocacy through the Sudan Campaign to Ban Landmines. Need
training to collect data but willing to share what they
collected to date from their database. Contact Point: Dr. Hussein
Eloibid, Sudan CBL.
YEMEN:
* Have some data on mine-affected areas, mine survivors, stockpiles
but not computerized. US government is working with the military to
establish a national mine action center. Yemeni Mine Awarenes
Committee is the non-governmental member on the advisory board for
this. Contact point: Christina Nelke, Radda Barnen, YMAC
After December:
9-10 February 1999
* Lebanon will host a Regional Workshop on the Menace of Landmines
for about 50 to 75 participants. Invite one NGO from each country of
region and request that they bring and share their data on la
mines. Also invite one government from each country of the region to
make a statement on landmines. Contact point: Habbouba Aoun,
Landmines Resource Cente
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REPORT FROM WORKING SESSION OF RUSSSIA/CAUCASUS/CIS
Landmine Monitor Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 15-18 September
1998
Following is a list of the various ways in which NGOs from Russia,
the CIS and the FSU are willing to contribute to the Landmine Monitor
(LM) initiative
CAUCASUS
ABKHAZIA
The Center for Humanitarian Programmes (CHP), rerpesented by Vladimir
Kakalia, is prepared to contribute information in the following
area
-mine incidents
-victim assistance and rehabilitation
-implementation of mine awareness programs
-demining
-use of AP mines
The CHP will collect this information by visiting local authorities,
government offices, international and local NGOs, as well as by use
of personal contact
AZERBAIJAN
The Azerbaijan Campaign to Ban Landmines (ACBL), represented by Leila
Yunusova, is prepared to contribute information in the following
area
-mine victims
-socioeconomic impact
-survey of minefields
The ACBL will collect information by visiting local groups, sites and
individuals, as well as using the resources of UNICEF, the Red Cross
in Azerbaijan and other local NGO
CHECHNYA
The Center for Peaceaking and Community Development (CPCD),
represented by Chris Hunter and Maia Chovkalova, is prepared to
contribute information in the following area
-mine incidents
-rehabilitation
-survey of minefields/critical zones
-mine awareness activity
-demining
The CPCD will collect this information by visiting mine affected
areas and relevant bodies/authorities, and by cooperating with two
other Chechnyan NGOs that are part of the ICB
GEORGIA
The Helsinki Citizens' Assembly of Georgia (HCAG), represented by
Aleksander Russetsky, is prepared to collect information in the
following area
-mine victims
-socioeconomic impact
-rehabilitation/reintagration
-survey of minefields
-challengers for deminers
-NGO activities related to landmines
-governement's adherence to Protocol II of the CCW
The HCAG will collect this information by the use of questionnaires,
and the creation of a database which will be maintained and regularly
update
CIS
BELARUS
The Belarus Campaign to Ban Landmines (BCBL), represented by Tatyana
Zagumienaya, will collect information on the landmines situation in
Belarus, and specifically in the area of AP mine
stockpi
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The Russian affiliate of the International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear , Wat (IPPNW), represented by Oxana Habib and
Roman Dolgov, is prepared to contribute information in the followin
areas:
-policies and action of Russia and the states of the FSU, including
adherence to bans, moratoria, restriction on AP mines, adherence to
the CCW and the MBT, national legislation on ratification, su
ort for the signing of resolutions and declarations, research and
development of AP mines, production, trasfer and use
-mine incidents
-victim assistance and rehabilitation
This data will be collected by RPPNW through its chapters, sister
affiliates and activists in the region, contacts in the Duma,
ministries and the military complex, as well as a working group of
rts, and contacts with NGOs.
The Russian Association of Veterans in the UN missions, represented
by Victor Erchov, is prepared to contribute information in the
following area
-media coverage of the landmines issue
-ammunition stockpiles, process of destruction of stockpiles of AP
mines and other explosives
-use, transfer and further development of AP mines
-development of new types of mines and high-explosives outside of
Russia
-mine incidents
-care and rehabilitation
-socioeconomic reintegration
-Russia's contribution to international mine-clearance
-programs of mine-clearance training
The above mentioned NGOs are prepared to collect, systematize and
forward this information to the LM by December 1998.
Morover, the Caucasian working group discussed ways in which to
cooperate. Following is the list of joint projects that these NGOs
are planning to undertak
(1) LM Coordinating Seminar (CPCD-Chechnya)
(2) Training for trainers in "Mine Awareness Programs"
(3) Producing relevant information literature in Russian and other
languages
(4) Setting-up a network/email system
(5) Conduct monitoring by local NGOs
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WORK PLAN FOR THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE
LANDMINE MONITOR. September 1998 / June 1999.
34 countries
16 have signed Ban treaty
2 have ratified
For 6 we have report on new use of mines
For 7 we have concern about potential new use.
Vietnam : Cambodia and Laos will meet to plan something about Vietnam
(maybe a visit)
Cambodia :
Brief the Thaļ Campaign on the way back from Dublin.
Organize their work for the LM
Organize a training for a data-base on mine victims
Nepal : Collect the data's
Training for data collectors (6-10 persons) for difficult areas(NSA)
December : National conference to get information from the government
(representatives will be invited) including meeting with people from
police and military and the prime minister.
Laos : meeting between HI/NPA/MAG on collecting data's from demining
and a MAP actions
Korea : AAR Japan will make a visit to Korea to collaborate and help
the Korean campaign to be more active.
Bhutan : Nepal will try to do something.
Bangladesh : will monitor the treaty in Bangladesh
Will host the south Asia regional meeting in March 99
China : A AR Japan will make research on China.
Japan : the Japan campaign To ban Landmines will do the monitoring.
Maldives : The Sri Lanka Campaign will find contact there.
Pacific Island : The Campaign fro New Zealand will monitor those
countries.
Pakistan :
- Collect data's : victims, mined area's, stocks, use and trade
- Research on the use of explosive available in the market for
production of home made mines.
- Training of data collectors
- Organizing one data focal point in each of the 7 tribal area's
(through agencies presents in those area's). They will also focus on
N
- Workshop with military on the "utility / Non utility of APM" with
the center for defense and security of the King's college -UK-
- Workshop with religious scholars about the use of mine and the
principles of the Islamic religion (with the Afghan Campaign)
- Work at introducing Landmines subject in the universitary
curriculum : social sciences, international relations and political
sciences
Philippines - Malaysia - Brunei
Network with the government and NGO in different countries,
Start a data-base and computerize the information
Field investigation.
Myanmar /Burma : (done by the Australian Campaign)
Literature research
Visit to identify partners and start with collecting data's on
victims and health services.
Indonesia :
Meeting with the Legal Aid office with groups like east Timorese,
West Papuan, Aceh, Uni tricati (humanitarian law) about monitoring
landmines used during military exercises
Australia :
Data Collection through coordinators / network , a major section
will be the allocation of funds.
Monitor Australian Defense industry : sale of explosives ....
Afghanistan :
Monitoring : clearance, building data base on victims, donors : how
much reach in the field, new use, origin of mines, mine awareness..
Participate to the elaboration of clearance standards.
Research on the social and economic impact of mine clearance.
Islam and the use of mines, paper with Pakistan.
Prepare the National legislation for the future government.
New Zealand :
Ratification
Use of Mines in Papua New-Guinea.
Regional Conference for South Asia : 3 days, 20-22March 99
(Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan Nepal, Bhutan
...) This will include a LM day. Hosted by Bangladesh
