Mine Ban Treaty - meetings of Standing Committees: IPB report
These meetings, held in Geneva in June 2011, provided the second opportunity following the Second Review Conference of the Mine BanTreaty to discuss the application of the Cartagena Action Plan 2010-2014. As such, they were intended to further build upon the momentum of Cartagena where the States Parties agreed to undertake 67 concrete actions “in support of enhanced implementation and promotion of the Convention” and pledged “to translate this action plan into sustainable progress.” ... FULL TEXT

Nobel Laureates Urge Obama to Ban Landmines
Human Rights Watch, November 30,, 2010 —  Fifteen Nobel Peace Prize recipients have sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to ban antipersonnel landmines. The letter was sent on November 30, 2010, as the Obama administration's formal review of US landmine policy entered its second year...>Read more

Landmine Monitor 2010
International Campaign to Ban Landmines  - Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor provides research and monitoring for the ICBL and the CMC and is formally a program of the ICBL. It monitors and reports on States Parties' implementation of, and compliance with, the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and more generally, it assesses the international community's response to the humanitarian problems caused by landmines, cluster munitions, and other explosive remnants of war...>Read more

Meeting the Challenge: protecting civilians through the Convention on Cluster Munitions
From Human Rights Watch, November 22, 2010 — This book is the culmination of a decade of research by Human Rights Watch. It details the humanitarian toll of cluster munitions, analyzes the international process that resulted in the treaty successfully banning them, and presents the steps that nations that have signed the convention should take to fulfill its promise. Meeting the Challenge draws on Human Rights Watch's field investigations to document the burdens cluster munitions impose on civilians...>Read more

First-ever Cluster Munition Monitor released!
From Mines Action Canada, November 1, 2010 — November 1st marks the release of the 2010 Cluster Munition Monitor.  This is the first Cluster Munition Monitor report, the sister publication to the Landmine Monitor report, which has been issued annually since 1999.  The new publication reflects the increased monitoring of the cluster munition issues.  Starting in 2010 the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor will produce three publications: Country Profiles, Landmine Monitor, and Cluster Munition Monitor...>Read more

Nepal landmines campaign organises activities with victims
From Nepal Campaign to Ban Landmines, August 2010 — After the NCBL training, the National Network of Mine Victims (NNMV) reported that they succeeded to develop a programme which included: street Drama collaborating with other disabled persons, fund raising for economic development...>Read more

Ethical shareholders prize awarded to ICBL members Thomas Küchenmeister and Action Group Landmine.de
September 13, 2010- The Group contributed a tremendous amount to obtaining the German Government’s approval of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, as well as to the verification and the implementation of the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines...>Read more

Japan banks ban financing cluster munitions
From AFP, July 30, 2010 — Japan's three largest banks said on Friday they would refrain from financing the manufacture of cluster bombs, two days before an international convention against the munitions comes into force.. >> Read more

Disinvestment campaigners track success at Amsterdam workshop
From StopClusterMunitions, July 29, 2010 -The Convention on Cluster Munitions takes effect on Sunday, 1 August 2010, when it becomes binding international law in countries around the world.. >> Read more

Campaigners celebrate as Cluster Convention becomes binding international law
From StopClusterMunitions, July 29, 2010 -The Convention on Cluster Munitions takes effect on Sunday, 1 August 2010, when it becomes binding international law in countries around the world...> Read more

João Silva: Photographer & Victim of Landmines
J.B.Russell - João Silva, 44, a South African photographer on contract with The New York Times, made his name while covering the violent birth pangs of a democratic South Africa. He was a member of the Bang-Bang Club, a group of photographers who documented the Hostel War during the last days of Apartheid. Since he has covered the major conflicts of our time and won numerous awards.  On October 23, 2010, he stepped on a mine...>Read more

Cluster Munitions Coalition 2011 Action Plan
L. Cheeseman,  January 5, 2011 - 2011 is a crucial year for the movement to eradicate cluster munitions. In this respect the CMC 2011 Action Plan is a useful tool to focus on priorities and activities for the universalisation and implementation of the Convention.  The major milestone of the year will occur in September 2011, when the Second Meeting of States Parties (2MSP) to the Convention is held in Beirut, Lebanon. >Read more

Students Create Sculpture of Shoes
in Campaign Against Cluster Munitions
The sculpture was placed in various community locations and eventually traveled to Washington, D.C. along with the students to raise awareness. We are working members of the West Virginia, United States and the International Campaign ... > READ MORE

Forgotten Bombs of the Secret War
During the war in Vietnam, the US military dropped more bombs on neighbouring Laos than it did worldwide during the entire Second World War. Up to a third of them failed to explode. Now, more than 30 years since the conflict ended, unexploded ordnance contaminates more than half the country’s land and kills around 200 people each year. Ben Winston reports : ... > READ MORE