WVCBL (WEST VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN TO BAN LANDMINES AND CLUSTER BOMBS) URGES THE UNITED STATES TO JOIN THE GLOBAL BAN ON CLUSTER BOMBS Thursday, August 1st, 2013 marked the third anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). This year also marks the Cluster Munition Coalition’s 10th anniversary. WVCBL Campaigners […]
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WVCBL/PSALM joins the Cluster Munition Coalition and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in marking five years since the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) was adopted at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions. The 107 countries that adopted the Convention set aside long-held arguments on the military utility of cluster munitions and recognized that […]
Working with “Youth Campaigning on Canadian CCM Legislation” and Mines Action Canada, PSALM students completed a 20 foot artwork made especially for members of the Canadian Parliament working on the Convention on Cluster Munitions legislation. Students sent self-portraits with the message, “We don’t want our country to use cluster bombs, please don’t help them. Changez le […]
PSALM/WVCBL, as well a campaigners worldwide, joined together for a global month of action that kicked off on March 1st, the anniversary of entry into force of the Mine Ban Treaty and built up to April 4th, the International Day for Mine Awareness. March 1st also marked the anniversary of the founding of PSALM/WVCBL by […]
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A “NOBEL” CAUSE: Portraits of Peace
Members of PSALM: Proud Students Against Land Mines/West Virginia Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs met last fall to discuss how to join the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) in celebrating 20 years of campaigning for a world free of landmines. It seemed fitting that a youth campaign born from an art […]
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The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) celebrates 20 years of campaigning for a world free of landmines. In 1992, the ICBL, a global civil society movement, was born to put an urgent stop to a humanitarian crisis, which was leaving more than 20,000 people killed or maimed by antipersonnel mines every year. ICBL’s efforts […]
Cluster Bombs: A History of Harm A cluster bomb is a weapon that can contain up to several hundred small explosive bomblets. Dropped from the air or fired from the ground, cluster bombs break open in mid-air and scatter these bomblets over a wide area. Anyone within the strike zone is likely to be torn apart, […]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton touched down in Vientiane, Laos on July 11th, marking the first time that a U.S. Secretary of State has visited the country since 1955. While there, Secretary Clinton made a visit to the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) Center to observe medical and rehabilitation services for amputees, many of […]
Seventy-Six Civil Society Leaders Deliver Letter to President Obama Calling on U.S. to Announce Intent to Join Mine Ban Treaty… Leaders from 76 nongovernmental organizations, including WVCBL/PSALM, delivered a letter to President Obama urging the U.S. to relinquish antipersonnel landmines and join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty without further delay. The letter follows a request made […]