The International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action reminds us how far we have come in clearing the world of explosive remnants of war – and how far we still have to go. Thirty years ago, civil society activists came together to launch the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. JOIN US! FOR “Lend Your Leg” […]
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International Women’s Day
WVCBL/PSALM celebrate International Womens Day. PSALM has encouraged leadership among youth since 1999.
(Geneva, 1 March) – The International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munition Coalition extends a warm congratulations to Nigeria on becoming the 111th State Party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). With its ratification on 28 February, Nigeria joins more than half of the countries in the world in clearly condemning cluster munitions, weapons used […]
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Thank You to Jimmy Carter
WVCBL/PSALM join the USCBL-USCMC to recognize Jimmy Carter’s support for a mine- and cluster munition-free world. As President Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care and the world already begins to reflect on his life and legacy, the US Campaign to Ban Landmines – US Cluster Munition Coalition recognizes his support for a mine- and cluster […]
The Treaty The 1997 Mine Ban Treaty is a legally binding international agreement that bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of antipersonnel mines and places obligations on countries to clear affected areas, assist victims, and destroy stockpiles.The Treaty is the best framework for solving the problems still posed by antipersonnel mines all over the […]
ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE ICBL As a teacher who has been “at it” for quite a while I can attest to the fact that many times the students become the teachers and the teacher becomes the student. In 1999, I assigned a project to my art students: design an artwork that […]
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The Campaign that Changed the World
ICBL-CMC has been working with mine action partners to highlight 30 years of successful civil society mine action. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines was founded in 1992 by six organizations including Handicap International (now Humanity and Inclusion), Human Rights Watch, Mines Advisory Group, Physicians for Human Rights and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. In 2011, the ICBL merged with […]
December 3rd marks the 10th anniversary of the signature of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions provides the only international framework for eradicating these weapons.Its disarmament provisions comprehensively prohibit the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster munitions, as well as assistance with any of these banned activities, and require […]
The 20th Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty took place 21-25 November 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland. ICBL joins VA Expert meeting in margins of 20MSP – You can follow here. ICBL 20MSP Meeting Statements Read the ICBL-CMC Statement on the ocassion of the 20MSP Closing, here. Official Documents
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Landmine Monitor 2022
WVCBL/PSALM wish to thank the Monitor teams for their extraordinary work researching landmines and cluster munitions. Launched November 2022, the 24th edition of the Landmine Monitor focuses on calendar year 2021, with information included up to October 2022 when possible. The 24th annual Landmine Monitor report provides a global overview of efforts to universalize and fully implement the […]