July, 2023 – The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is appalled by the United States’ plans to transfer banned cluster munitions to Ukraine, as reported today in the New York Times. The transfer of the weapon, prohibited under the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, follows repeated requests by Ukrainian officials for cluster munitions to counter the […]
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ICBL CMC Annual Report 2022
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The 2023 Intersessional Meetings took place from 19 to 21 June 2023 at the headquarters of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva with participation of hundreds of delegates representing States and international and non-governmental organisations which work towards a world free of anti-personnel mines. Below you can find ICBL-CMC contributions from the 2023 Mine Ban […]
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 […]