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The Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor is looking for photos for its 2025 publications. We are looking for photos taken in 2024 and 2025 which explore: Send high resolution photos to email: monitor@icblcmc.org. The call is open until June 18, 2025. Detailed information about the invitation can be viewed here

On the occasion of April 4th, the International Mine Awareness Day, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 30 years after the end of the war, is still facing the problem of landmines. Mines and unexploded ordnance pose a great danger to the population. The International Mine Awareness Day aims to raise awareness about the dangers of mines and…

The international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel landmines faces unprecedented threats, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), 1997 Nobel Peace Co-Laureate, warns on the 26th anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty’s entry into force on 1 March 1999. “Over the past 25 years, the Mine Ban Treaty has garnered widespread international support and made a lasting…

The year 2024 was a year of challenges, achievements, and lessons learned. We grew, changed, learned, and worked hard to do the best we know and can. Together with our partners, who have been our strong support every year, we worked on strengthening and empowering individuals and communities with the desire to create an environment…

Fifth Review Conference (5RC) of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on Their Destruction, also known as the Ottawa Convention will be held from November 25-29, 2024 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Cambodia named this conference “The Siem Reap-Angkor Summit on a Mine-Free Word”. The purpose…

The 100-page Cluster Munition Monitor 2024 report provides a comprehensive overview of implementation and adherence to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. A total of 112 states—including South Sudan, the last country to accede to the convention in August 2023—are party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which comprehensively prohibits cluster munitions and requires destruction…

The Delegation of the Republic of Slovenia, the Delegation of the European Union, the Permanent Mission of Slovenia and the Implementation Support Unit (ISU) of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Production, Stockpiling, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, will be held from August 27 to 29, 2024 in Ljubljana,…

Even though for the past couple of years digitalization process in the Western Balkans has been gaining pace, with the educational sector being put on the spot with introduction of online learning contents as a result of COVID 19, numerous literature reviews showcase that severe digital divide and gaps prohibit the educational efforts for many…

Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor is looking for photos to be published in this year’s publications and displayed on the Monitor website. The call is open to everyone. Please look through your digital photo albums, solicit photos from colleagues and partner organizations, and send high-resolution photos by Friday 14 June 2024 to monitor@icblcmc.org What are…