The Handicap International Advisor therefore promoted a “twin-track approach” to inclusive development, providing earmarked VA support and mainstreaming VA within other activities. Countries and agencies should “ensure that VA efforts are streamlined within other national development activities” and at the same time should continue to also provide dedicated VA funding as a...
Handicap International welcomes, in particular, the commitment of the European Union to make the victim assistance commitments “widely available”, according to the European Council Decision of 13 November 2012, in support of the implementation of the Cartagena Action Plan 2010-2014, announcing an investment of more than 1 million euros.
In 2011, the mine action contribution from the European Commission (EC) totalled 13.9 million euros for eight countries, according to the Landmine Monitor 2012. Through the European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO) 10.7 million euros were allocated to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Libya, Pakistan, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka. The EC financed 3.9 million euros of stockpile...
With Poland’s ratification of the Mine Ban Treaty in December last year, 161 states, including all European Member States, are party to the Convention which comprehensively bans the use, production, trade, and stockpiling of anti-personnel landmines.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak during this workshop. I work with Handicap International, which works in 39 mine/ERW affected countries of which a total of 30 are considered to have a high number of victims from mines/ERW including cluster munitions. During this short intervention, we would like to share with you a number of facts related to international cooperation and assistance in the...
In a Fact Sheet on Victim Assistance in April 2012 the Monitor stated: “Since the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) entered into force on 1 August 2010, States Parties obliged to comply with victim assistance provisions have reported making more efforts than ever before to improve the lives of cluster munition victims. This demonstrates that the convention is making a...
Further to a request from parliamentarians, El Fassed on 14th June 2012 and van Ojik on 8th November 2012, Dutch Finance Minister J.R.V.A. Dijsselbloem, on behalf of the Foreign Minister and Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, has formulated a reaction to the report Worldwide Investments in Cluster Munitions (June 2012) to Dutch investments in cluster munitions and the...
States banning cluster munitions should prohibit any investment in their production.Four years after the ground-breaking Convention on Cluster Munitions was signed in Oslo, still too many fi nancial institutionsare assisting in the production of cluster munitions by investing in those companies that continue to produce those worldwide unaccepted weapons. The fi rst article of the Convention...
The 9th ASEM took place in Vientiane between 5 and 6 November under the motto Friends for Peace, Partners for Prosperity. The 9th ASEM assembles delegates from 49 countries in the Lao capital, the first international political summit of this proportion to be hosted in the Lao PDR. The ASEM, organized since 1996 as a biannual interregional forum for deepening the relations...
