Ban Advocates news

Lynn  is delivering her speech
(Geneva, 16 April 2012) Government representatives from around 60 states are attending this week the second intersessional meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions to discuss progress being...
Sladjan speaking at the press conference
(Nis, Serbia, 5 April 2012) Media Research Center in Nis presented to a large audience the documentary film "13 years after, where are we today?" at the press conference held at the Media...
poster with the Lao Ban Advocates to join the campaign
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } (Vientiane, Lao PDR, 4 April 2012) During celebrations for the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, organized and coordinated by the...
Picture of the BA Ethiopian team (Berihu, Aynalem and Tesfay) in Oslo
Ending the year 2011 was sad to the entire Ban Advocates team members in learning a very bad news regarding our respected friend and colleague Tesfay Haileselassie from Ethiopia, who passed away due...
Provincial Meeting organised by the Laos BA in Lao PDR
To ensure the implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) in Laos, the Lao Ban Advocates (BA) supported by Handicap International, organized in January 2012 provincial meetings for...
Part of the Ban Advocates team
A group of 13 Ban Advocates and support staff from Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam were involved in the 11th meeting of State Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty, organized in Phnom Penh from 28th November...
Workshop for capacity building in Tirana
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...
Lynn and Mina together at the CCW conference
  “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...
Branislav delivering his statement
“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...
Lynn delivering her speech
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...
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