Description:
"Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor provides research for the International
Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Cluster Munition Coalition. The International
Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) formed in 1992 to rid the world of the scourge of the
anti-personnel landmine. The ICBL is a network of over 1,300 non-governmental
organizations in 70 countries, and received the Nobel Peace Award in 1997. The Cluster
Munition Coalition is an international civil society campaign working to eradicate cluster
munitions, prevent further casualties from these weapons and put an end for all time to the
suffering they cause.
Landmine Monitor documents the implementation of the 1997 Ottawa Convention, or
the Mine Ban Treaty. Cluster Munition Monitor documents the implementation of the 2008
Convention on Cluster Munitions. Both Landmine Monitor and Cluster Munition Monitor
assess the efforts of the international community to resolve the crisis caused by these
weapons.
As of 1 November 2019, 164 countries, over 80% of the world’s governments, have
ratified, or acceded to, the Mine Ban Treaty. 120 countries have signed, ratified, or acceded
to, the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Myanmar/Burma has not yet joined either
convention.
Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor is not a technical treaty verification system or a
formal inspection regime. It is an effort by ordinary people to hold governments accountable
to non-use of antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions. It is meant to compliment the
reporting requirements of countries which have ratified the treaties. Our reports seek to make
transparent the state of the landmine and cluster munition crisis, and government policies or
practices, in non-signatory states.
Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor aims to promote and facilitate discussion within
human society in order to reach the goal of a landmine and cluster munition free world.
Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor works in good faith to provide factual
information about the issue it is monitoring in order to benefit the world as a whole. It is
critical, but constructive in its documentation and analysis..."
Source/publisher:
Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor
Date of Publication:
2019-11-00
Date of entry:
2020-01-22
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar
Language:
English
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Format:
pdf
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554.76 KB (31 pages)
Resource Type:
text
Text quality:
- Good