West Virginia Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster BombsLaunched on 15 September 2025, this report focuses on calendar year 2024 with some information updated into August 2025 where possible. Cluster Munition Monitor 2025 covers cluster munition ban policy, use, production, transfers, and stockpiling globally, and also contains information on the impact of cluster munition contamination and casualties, as well as developments and challenges in […]
The Cluster Munition Monitor 2025 report will be presentedto the 13th Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions at the United Nations in Geneva on 16-19 September 2025.Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor is the civil society initiative providing research and monitoring for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the Cluster […]
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is pleased to announce the launch of Silent Killers, an ICBL Special Series Podcast. This initiative has been developed in collaboration with activist, speaker, and filmmaker David Peck, whose documentary Broken Courage highlights the experiences of landmine survivors in Cambodia. Through this new series, ICBL aims to provide a platform for survivors, advocates, and […]
Geneva, August 1st, 2025 – Fifteen years after the Convention on Cluster Munitions entered into force, the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) welcomes the life-saving impact of this landmark treaty and urges all states to reaffirm their commitment to its obligations, at a time when the norm against these weapons is under increasing pressure. “Cluster munitions are […]
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is deeply concerned by Ukraine’s Depository Notification to the United Nations Secretary-General announcing the suspension of its obligations under the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. In its official notification, Ukraine invokes Article 62 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which permits the suspension or termination of treaty obligations […]
Nobel Peace-Prize Winner Denounces Baltic Countries’ Official Announcement of Withdrawal from Life-Saving Landmine Ban Treaty PRESS RELEASE Geneva 1 July 2025 – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have formally notified States Parties of their intention to withdraw from the Mine Ban Treaty, according to a statement by the President of the 22nd Meeting of States Parties, Ambassador Ichikawa Tomiko, […]
Geneva, 2 July 2025 I am gravely alarmed by the steps taken or being considered by Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine to withdraw from the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. The Ottawa Convention, with over 160 State parties, is a crucial tool in responding to the devastating impact of anti-personnel […]
(Published on ReliefWeb on 16 June 2025) The global bans on anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions are two of the most significant humanitarian achievements of the post-Cold War era and have saved tens of thousands of lives. The victims of these weapons are predominantly civilians, their families and communities. The 1997 Anti-personnel Mine Ban Treaty and the 2008 Convention on […]
MAY 30, 2025We are deeply concerned by disturbing developments that are again putting civilians at greater risk of harm from antipersonnel landmines and explosive remnants of war, notably cluster munitions.We support the work of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which was jointly awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize together with its then-coordinator Jody […]
In coordination with the Mine Ban Treaty intersessional meetings later this month in Geneva, ICBL and Handicap International (HI)-Switzerland have installed the banner you see attached, now displayed on the iconic Broken Chair in front of the UN in Geneva. The banner hanging coincides with the launch of ICBL/CMC public campaign calling on Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland to stop their […]