For Stéphane Lobjois, Handicap International’s head of mission in Pakistan, the situation facing flood victims remains highly critical.
All States should urgently destroy cluster munitions and provide long-term assistance to survivors“Handicap International Belgium welcomes the destruction of cluster munitions by Belgium and calls on the government to promote, with even more vigour the universalisation of the Convention on Cluster Munition, the destruction of submunitions and assistance to victims,” says Bruno...
The Entry into Force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions was celebrated in the city of Siem Reap, a world-renowned center of Cambodian cultural heritage. The colorful, well-attended festivities included a parade, live music and songs, games for the many local children who attended, and the premier of an interpretive dance about cluster bombs put on by local students.
It’s past time for the U.S. to join a global ban on cluster bombs - Lynn Bradach, which son Travis, a corporal in the U.S. Marines, was killed by a U.S. cluster bomb in July 2003, while he was clearing unexploded ordnance from an Iraqi farmer's field near Karbala, organized an event in her hometown Portland in Oregon on the First of August and in a column in the Oregon Live from 3...
In the framework of actions devoted to celebrating the Entry into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Tajikistan campaign has organized a Round Table on 3rd August 2010. This event was attended by the representatives of the Presidential Administration, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, Tajikistan Mine Action Centre, local NGOs, Mass...
Film “Ban Advocates: From Victims to Champions” shows how survivors can realize change – Sladjan Vuckovic, Ban Advocate: “our work has not been useless”. The commitment of the Ban Advocates has not been useless as the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) enters into force on 1st August 2010. All over the world, the Ban Advocates celebrate this historic moment.
We, the Tajik Campaign to Ban Landmines, with the support of Umarbek Pulodov as Ban Advocate, organized an “Advocacy & Awareness Raising Training for the Cluster Munition and Landmine Survivors”. The main objective of this training was to have new Tajik Ban Advocates here in Tajikistan to urge our government to sign and ratify the CCM as soon as possible, preferably before the...
I organized a Ban Bus tour around affected regions of Tajikistan. I informed the communities about the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), and explained to them that implementing this Convention will stop harming civilians, and will provide more assistance for survivors and affected communities.
