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.
Poor understanding or disobedience of the traffic rules: running red lights, going the wrong way down a street, using the left hand lane to make left turns, and not yielding to incoming traffic are dangerous behaviors, yet are daily occurrences.One of Handicap International’s core aims in Cambodia is to work towards prevention of the 1717 yearly fatalities and 12538 crashes experienced in...
On 8 July, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling on European Union member states to urgently sign and ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions before the entry into force of the convention on 1 August.
Ban Advocates and Handicap International call on all countries to sign the Convention on Cluster MunitionsThe Ban Advocates, survivors of cluster munitions, and Handicap International Belgium call on all governments to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions on the eve of the Santiago Conference on Cluster Munitions. It is the last international meeting for signatory and non-signatory states,...
