On the 2nd and 3rd of December 2011, two days of training on capacity building were organized by Ardjana Mani, an Albanian Ban Advocate and Ilir Shkalla from ALB-AID (Albanian Association for Integration and Development) in Tirana for a group of eight persons who are landmine and cluster munition survivors as well as persons with disabilities, all coming from Kukes (North East Albania).
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Following today’s publication of the Landmine Monitor 2011 - the annual report on the Mine Ban Treaty - Handicap International denounces the recent landmine use by at least three States not members of the treaty. The organisation is also alarmed by the number of landmine victims, which remains high, and is calling on all States to join the Mine Ban Treaty.
Convention on Conventional Weapons 4th Review Conference, Geneva, November 2011
“I'm Mina Zunac from Croatia, as a cluster munition survivor and Ban Advocate; I just want to add that article 11 of this draft protocol does not give the guarantee to victims, their families and affected communities that it will improve their daily life. Only the CCM clearly obliges to give victims...
“My name is Branislav Kapetanovic. I worked as a deminer for the army, until I was injured by the BLU-97. We call them “Zute –ubice” – Yellow killers. If you look at the consequences these cluster munitions have on deminers, you can only imagine the devastating effects they have on the civilians.
I feel that too much has been done during the past three years to...
Released today in Geneva, the Cluster Munition Monitor 2011 provides an annual review of the progress of the Convention on Cluster Munitions which bans the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of cluster munitions worldwide.
States are currently involved in negotiations which may lead to dangerous developments in the global fight against use of cluster munitions.
I think the presence of victims here at the CCW meetings has definitely had an impact on the delegates and diplomates attending. We received comments of encouragement and thanks after having made our statements.
Some days after delivering my statement...
In Paris, on 24th September 2011, at the occasion of the 17th Pyramids of Shoes, Lynn met with another strong advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities, Philippe Croizon.
After being involved in the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, in Lebanon from the 12th till 16th September, Lynn Bradach, a Ban Advocate from the United States of America, was actively involved in an advocacy tour in European cities of Luxembourg, Brussels and Paris, from the 19th till 24th of September.
This mission, divided in two parts, is the result of the collaboration between Umarbek Pulodov, a Tajik Ban Advocate and Sulaiman Safdar, Ban Advocate support staff and executive director of ALSO (Afghan Landmine Survivor Organization) in Afghanistan. The first part of the mission consisted in Sulaiman’s involvement in a Regional Conference on Psychological Support while the second part was...
Still in shock after the devastation caused by typhoon Nesat on 27th September, the northern Philippines has been hit by a second typhoon – Nalgae. Handicap International is sending an emergency team to respond to the needs of the population affected.
