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...
Read the fact sheet on Worldwide Investments in Cluster Munitions
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...
Speaking about survivor inclusion and participation is not without good grounds. Indeed, both the CCM itself in article 5 and the Vientiane Action Plan in part VI, through provisions related to the broader Victim Assistance, are clearly calling specifically for survivors’ inclusion and participation.
We, survivors, states and civil society, were in Oslo for the Signing Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008, and we will be there again for the Third Meeting of States Party to the Convention on 11-14 Sep-tember 2012. In 2008, the Ban Advocates received a standing ovation from the conference participants for their crucial role in the negotiations on the Convention, in...
Report of the diplomatic conference for the adoption of a convention on cluster munitions
