Welcome on board, Sri Lanka!

Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva H.E. Ravinatha Pandukabhaya Aryasinha, 2 March 2016 @MBT-ISU Sri Lanka has become the 163rd State Party to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, having depos…

Happy 20th Anniversary

The Proud Students Against Landmines – West Virginia Campaign to Ban Landmines On 3-4 December the international community commemorate the 20 years since the signing of one of the most important huma…

Landmine Monitor 2017

The 2017 Landmine Monitor report will be virtually launched on 14 December 2017.   The 2017 report includes updates on the status of compliance to the Mine Ban Treaty, casualties related to landmines…

States Vote on UN Landmine Resolution

Cambodia © Sean Sutton In October 2017, at the end of the First Committee meeting of the 72th UNGA session, states voted on the annual UN resolution on the implementation of the Mine Ban Treaty. Res…

ICBL addresses UN Headquarters

Thirty-five states have yet to join the Mine Ban Treaty. There is no reason for them to delay in joining this widely embraced instrument.

ICAN receives Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded today the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitari…

Nobel Peace Prize-winning global campaign strongly condemns new use of landmines by Myanmar’s Military Forces

A landmine planted near the border of Myanmar-Bangladesh, 4 September 2017 © Private, courtesy of Amnesty International (Geneva, 22 September 2017) The International Campaign to Ban Landmines strongl…

Algeria eliminates last antipersonnel landmines

Destruction of antipersonnel mines, Djelfa province, Algeria, 18 September 2017 ©Ayman Sorour/ICBL On 18 September 2017 Algeria celebrated the 20th adoption anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty by des…

The Treaty Turns 20!

On 18 September 1997, nations from around the world came together in Oslo to adopt the Mine Ban Treaty. Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the treaty! Banning landmines would have not been po…

Reports of landmine use in Myanmar

A landmine planted near the border of Myanmar-Bangladesh, 4 September 2017 © Private, courtesy of Amnesty International  The 1997 Nobel Peace Prize laureate International Campaign to Ban Landmines is…

Princess Diana's Legacy Honored

Lady Diana meets with landmine survivors during a visit to landmine-affected communities in Angola in 1997. (c) Mercedes Sayagues On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana's death, th…

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Adopted

Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez of Costa Rica presided the negotations. ©Xanthe Hall The International Campaign to Ban Landmines congratulates the civil society activism which resulted in 122 nations …

Belarus completes the destruction of 3.4m stockpiled landmines

Belarus delegate at the Third Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty in Maputo, Mozambique ©ICBL, June 2014. Today the Republic of Belarus announced that it has completed the destruction of its st…

4 April: Going Beyond Awareness

Today marks 4 April, the day for International Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. 4 April aims at raising awareness of dangers caused by landmines and explosive remnants of war. The Intern…

The Mine Ban Treaty Turns 18: What Does it Mean?

ICBL Ambassador Mr Tun Chanareth advocates for delegates at the UN in Geneva to ban landmines. April 1996 © John Rodsted “The signing of the Ottawa treaty was one of the highlights of my career at th…

Algeria completes antipersonnel mine clearance

The delegate of Algeria announcing completion at the 20th International Meeting of National Mine Action Programme Directors ©ICBL Algeria confirmed today in Geneva the completion of its antipersonne…

Looking Back 20 Years: Lady Di in Angola

By Michael P. Moore from Landmine and Cluster Munition MonitorBased on an original post at Landmines in AfricaThis month marks the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana's visit to Angola. During that vis…