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...
Quatre ans après la signature de la Convention sur les armes à sous-munitions, les banques n’ont pas cessé d’investirauprès des entreprises les fabriquant. Cette convention stipule cependant que «chaque État partie» s’engage à ne jamais,«en aucune circonstance», […] «assister, encourager ou inciter quiconque à s’engager dans toute...
Read the fact sheet on Worldwide Investments in Cluster Munitions
Rapport de la conférence diplomatique pour l'adoption d'une convention sur les armes à sous-munitions.
L’assistance aux victimes est-elle vraiment une obligation légale pour les pays signataires de la Convention sur les armes à sous-munitions ? Cet-te assistance fait-elle partie des priorités pour les pays et régions concernés par ce problème ou ces pays ont-ils définid’autres priorités ? Peut-être ces pays sont-ils confrontés à une tâche qui leur paraît immense, sachant que leurs...
Representatives from more than 120 states attended the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Beirut from 12 to 16 September 2011. The States Parties adopted the closing Declaration, which also strongly condemned the use of cluster munitions. During the conference Swaziland acceded to the Convention, becoming the 63rd State Party. Forty countries having not yet...
On June 23 2011, Margaret Arach Orech, Ambassador to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Member of Uganda's National Council for Disability, Director of the Uganda Landmine Survivor's Association, and a landmine survivor stated on behalf of ICBL that only a handful of countries have begun, or completed, victim surveys or assessments of survivors’ needs in recent years....
Before August 31 2011, 5 affected States Parties reported on Victim Assistance in their Article 7 reports on the Convention on Cluster Munitions (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, DRC (voluntary), Lebanon, and Laos).The reporting format offered many opportunities to States Parties to give a comprehensive overview of all aspects of victim assistance implementation. Listing the...
On June 24 2011, the chair of the session on Resources, Cooperation and Assistance under the MBT noted that he sought to follow up on the recognition made last year, and more recently at the Tirana Symposium from May 30 to June 1 2011, that coordination of assistance and cooperation is a central aspect of national ownership. As such, the emphasis should be on partner responsibilities rather than...
