International Campaign to Ban Landmines

Type: Organization

Name: International Campaign to Ban Landmines

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

New Mayor for Milton Keynes announces pledges

New Mayor for Milton Keynes, Councillor Brian White, announced his pledges to the city for the coming year at a council chamber meeting on Wednesday night.Mr White began his term in office on a positive note looking to promote the city’s potential on ... [Published Milton Keynes Citizen - May 16 2013]

Entities: Milton Keynes (United Kingdom), Brian White, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, bone marrow, Digestion

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

National Energy Foundation

New mayor Brian has big plans to boost city Bria

Veteran councillor and former MP Brian White has revealed his jam-packed programme of plans to boost the city during his year of office.Brian, who was first elected as a Labour councillor in 1987, is determined Milton Keynes shall become even more of ... [Published Milton Keynes Citizen - May 09 2013]

Entities: Milton Keynes (United Kingdom), Angela Kennedy, National Energy Foundation, International Campaign to Ban Landmines

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Kongra-Gel

BDP calls for Parliament inspection into landmines

The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has introduced a proposal to launch a parliamentary inquiry for detecting and clearing landmines and for the recognition of the legal rights of those who have suffered damages due to mine explosions.Land mines laid ... [Published Turkish Daily - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Land Mine, Turkey, Kongra-Gel, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Syria

First reported Apr 04 2013 - Updated Apr 04 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations

World: UN reaffirms commitment to world free of mines and remnants of war

Source: UN News ServiceCountry: World 4 April 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated the importance of eliminating the threat of mines and explosive remnants of war as a crucial endeavour that advances peace, enables development, supports ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Apr 04 2013]

Entities: United Nations Mine Action Service, United Nations, Mine Action, Mine Clearance, Land Mine

First reported Mar 17 2013 - Updated Mar 17 2013 - 1 reports

Winners circle: Williams reveals people behind her Nobel Prize

The revelations in Jody Williams’ new memoir start on page one, where the native Vermonter writes she was in bed with her future husband — who was then legally separated but still married to someone else — when the phone rang at 4 a.m. Oct. 10, 1997, ... [Published Times Argus - Mar 17 2013]

Entities: Jody Williams, Nobel Prize, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Steve Goose, Nobel Peace Prize

First reported Mar 14 2013 - Updated Mar 14 2013 - 1 reports

Yemen: 6,000 landmine survivors reported in Yemen

Source: Yemen TimesCountry: Yemen Rammah Al-Jubari (author) Yemen may have been one of the first signatories of the Landmines Ban Treaty in 1997, but victims of mines in this country number over 6,000. Since the 1960s, landmines have been used in conflicts, ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Mar 14 2013]

Entities: Yemen, Land Mine, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Organism

First reported Mar 01 2013 - Updated Mar 01 2013 - 1 reports

International Campaign to Ban Landmines

World: Lend Your Leg to End Landmine Suffering: Nobel Campaign Makes Global Appeal on Anniversary of Ban Treaty

Source: International Campaign to Ban LandminesCountry: World (Geneva, 1 March 2013): On the fourteenth anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty’s entry into force, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is calling on governments and the public ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Mar 01 2013]

Entities: Ottawa Treaty, Land Mine, International Campaign to Ban Landmines

First reported Feb 23 2013 - Updated Feb 24 2013 - 1 reports

Killer robots must be stopped, say campaigners

'Autonomous weapons', which could be ready within a decade, pose grave risk to international law, claim activists A new global campaign to persuade nations to ban "killer robots" before they reach the production stage is to be launched in the UK by a ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 23 2013]

Entities: Robotics, Noel Sharkey, Jody Williams

First reported Dec 07 2012 - Updated Dec 07 2012 - 1 reports

Another UP professor takes over as peace panel head

Ferrer is a current member of the government panel that signed a preliminary agreement on Oct. 15 with Moro rebels as part of a political solution to end the 40-year-old secessionist movement in Mindanao.The two panels are set to meet again in Kuala Lumpur ... [Published Philippine Daily Inquirer - Dec 07 2012]

Entities: Peace Process, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Hiroshima University, International Campaign to Ban Landmines

First reported Dec 03 2012 - Updated Dec 04 2012 - 1 reports

World: Ottawa Treaty: Landmines are not a Problem of the Past

Source: Handicap InternationalCountry: World Fifteen years ago today, we all felt Canadian! The whole world met in Ottawa to sign the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Dec 03 2012]

Entities: Ottawa Treaty, Ottawa, Handicap International, Land Mine

First reported Dec 03 2012 - Updated Dec 04 2012 - 2 reports

Civil Society Welcomes U.S. Participation at Mine Ban Treaty Conference

Expectations for Renewed Progress Grow Following U.S. Election The U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL) joins Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) campaigners and landmine survivors from nearly 40 countries ... [Published PRWeb - Dec 03 2012]

Entities: Ottawa Treaty, United States, Ordnance

First reported Nov 29 2012 - Updated Nov 30 2012 - 2 reports

Syria only state using landmines in 2012: campaigners

GENEVA - The Syrian regime was the only government in the world to lay new landmines this year, campaigners said Thursday as they issued an annual report on the use and effect of the devastating weapons.Mark Hiznay, the editor of the report for the International ... [Published ASDNews.com: Be the first to know - Nov 29 2012]

Entities: Syria, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Ottawa, Geneva, Annual Report

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March 2013 [Published Ingleton-Beer Associates - May 15 2013]

...than 45 soldiers who have had amputations because of landmines over the last two years urgently need prosthetics and replacements," said Sawng. "The number one injury is caused by landmines, with both Burmese troops and Kachin soldiers mistakenly stepping on their own mines."

Myanmar: Landmine casualties rising in Kachin, Myanmar [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 15 2013]

"During the early stages of the struggle we were using anti-personnel mines as a defence for our camps,” Murad Ebrahim noted. “There are those commanders who said we did not need to sign this commitment but, ultimately, if we continued to use landmines, our people suffer."

Philippines: Engaging with Philippines armed groups [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Apr 25 2013]

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