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  • 14 December 2017

    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…

  • 04 December 2017

    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…

  • 15 November 2017

    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…

  • 09 November 2017

    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…

  • 10 October 2017

    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.

  • 06 October 2017

    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…

  • 22 September 2017

    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…

  • 19 September 2017

    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…

  • 18 September 2017

    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…

  • 12 September 2017

    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…

  • 30 August 2017

    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…

  • 11 July 2017

    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 …

  • 05 April 2017

    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…

  • 04 April 2017

    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…

  • 01 March 2017

    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…

  • 10 February 2017

    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…

  • 17 January 2017

    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…

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