Open Letter to Leyla and Arif Yunus
Sylvie Brigot-Vilain, Executive Director, International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) Dear Leyla and Arif, I am writing to remind you of the support from all your friends and […]
Sylvie Brigot-Vilain, Executive Director, International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) Dear Leyla and Arif, I am writing to remind you of the support from all your friends and […]
By Firoz Ali Alizada, ICBL Campaign Manager According to several media reports in the past five years, over 200 civilian deminers and other staff members of demining organizations have been […]
By Mark Hiznay, Senior Researcher, Arms Division of Human Rights Watch In recent days several media outlets including the Washington Post and CNN reported that Iraqi security forces and Kurdish […]
Tamar Gabelnick, ICBL-CMC Policy Director The Mine Ban Treaty’s Third Review Conference will begin one month from today in Maputo, Mozambique, providing a chance not only to look back on […]
Dr. Matthew Bolton Assistant Professor of Political Science, Pace University, and Landmine Monitor Researcher Over the last few days, I have been getting many questions from journalists and friends alike […]
Nathalie Muñoz Tord, ICBL-CMC Today is World Malaria Day. Malaria is carried by mosquitoes and transmitted by parasites, a “vector-borne disease” that causes an estimated 660,000 deaths each year and […]
Loren Persi, Victim Assistance Coordinating Editor, the Monitor At the intersessional meetings of the Mine Ban Treaty last week there was a new development; one more country, Zimbabwe, recognized its […]
Republished from Survivor Networks* On 28 December, 2013 representatives of nine local survivor associations launched the first-ever Colombian survivor network in Bogotá. The initiative was carried out by the District […]
Tamar Gabelnick, Policy Director, ICBL-CMC This spring, Human Rights Watch received a pile of credible evidence about the recent planting of thousands of antipersonnel (AP) mines. Any new use of […]
By Tamar Gabelnick, Policy Director, International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coalition. At the Intersessional Standing Committee meetings last month, six States Parties presented requests for more time […]