The Cluster Project© http://theclusterproject.com/ is an online collaborative artwork that surveys the thriving universe of cluster bombs, drones, nukes, and the casual acceptance of civilian casualties around the world.
These videos, animations, illustrations, performances, interventions, and dataflow programming works, together with a wry and inventive blog, will inspect our culture...
As part of the ©Cluster Project’s work, Mr. Bob Paris, an American artist, and his former student, Mrs. Mariam Eqbal, a Pakistani-American artist, have had interviews with some members of the BA project in Berlin, in 2009.
Mrs. Mariam Eqbal did sketches of many of the Ban Advocates and, later made the animations that you can discover on their blog under the title “The Human...
Umedjon participated to the ISC for the Mine Ban Treaty held in Geneva from the 27th to the 31st of May 2013.
During the conference days, Umedjon took an active role in advocating for the rights of victims and for the rights of People with Disabilities in general.
He went to talk to the delegation of Tajikistan, his country, to get an update of the realizations and progresses made with regards to...
We are pleased to share with you this report about the Ban Advocates project, illustrating our experience in advocating together with victims.
The report highlights that advocacy with and by victims (survivors, family and community members of people injured or killed by cluster munitions) is not a straightforward process. It involves the perception of victims as people located within...
Umedjon Naimov, a BA member from Tajikistan and campaigner for the Tajik Campaign to Ban Landmine and Cluster Munitions (TCBL), participates to this week Mine Ban Treaty Intersessional Standing Committees Meetings, taking place in Geneva from the 27th to the 31st of May 2013.
More than 80 countries are reassembled this week to discuss progress and challenges with regards to the implementation of...
Aynalem Zenebe from Ethiopia represented the Ban Advocates group at the Lomé Regional Conference on the Universalization of the CCM that took place from the 22nd to the 23rd of May 2013 in Togo.
This Conference aimed at building a strategy upon the Accra action plan agreed in 2012 to promote the universalization of the CCM in Africa and to work for a cluster munitions free Africa.
Aynalem had the...
This May 14, the Republic of Iraq ratified the treaty against cluster munitions. An important step in the fight against these weapons because Iraq is one of the most contaminated countries in the world. Accession to the Treaty involves the destruction of these weapons of death and the assistance for the thousands of victims.
Workshop - "The role of media in advocating for the ban of cluster munitions”
The NGO Action and Aid (A&A) and Media Investigative Center (MIC) organized a weekend seminar for journalists in Sokobanja on the 27 and 28th of April.
Reminding thatSerbia, although affected by cluster bombs, still has not signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the activists gathered journalists...
Together with 35 members of his family, Mohammad, 63, fled the bombing of Aleppo to seek refuge in the province of Idlib.They are now all living on top of each other in one small house. When Jens, a Handicap International physiotherapist, met Mohammad for the first time at the beginning of February, he was withdrawn, huddled up on a mattress in the corner of the living room. “It was as...
During the 4 days of the intersessionals meetings for the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Ban Advocates have been working on both media and lobby.
Together with the Handicap International’ s advocacy officer of, Mrs. Hildegarde Vansintjan, they have been meeting with several countries to update them on the situation of the survivors and the victims in their country as well as around...
